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HOME THEATER MAGIC 40
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Decorating the holidays
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HOW TO BUY

HOME THEATER
SPEAKERS

What is a home theater without
loudspeakers? Not a very effective
one to be sure. Fortunately, many
manufacturers of home theater
components have added these im-
portant ingredients, designed espe-
cially for use with video, to their
home theater product lines.

Satellite speaker systems con-
tain the necessary speaker compo-
nents. They differ, however, in the
number of speakers provided. All
satellite systems will contain two
front satellite speakers and a
subwoofer, which will provide the
deep, seat-rumbling sounds so im-
portant to creating a theater-like
ambience. To complete the pack-
age, you'll need to add two sur-
round, or rear channel, speakers so
that you can
enjoy the full
Dolby Sur-
round Sound
Y try effect. Some

Professio val systems will
Aucivige have these
Associatlo: speakers in-
cluded. Still
other systems will include a center
channel satellite speaker, which will
output the video’s dialogue realis-
tically and thus let the system de-
liver the full effect of Dolby Pro
Logic.

Regardless of the size and power
handling capability, look for front
channel and center channel speak-
ers that are magnetically shielded.
Other variations on the theme in-
clude in-wall models as well as
self-powered ones. What is right
for you depends on the size of your
viewing room, the needs that the
home theater must fulfill, and, as
always, your budget.

To find out more about home

theater speaker systems, consult
your local PARA dealer.
PARA is an association
of specialty audio/video
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(708) 268-1500

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CHANNEL ONE

Te: HD, or not to°HD

An atmosphere of inevitability about high-definition television has been build-
ing over the past several years, spurred by the Federal Communications
Commission’s aggressive pursuit of a terrestrial broadcast standard, by rapid-
fire technological innovations, and by the courting of the HDTV selection
committee and broadcasters by five suitors, each claiming to have the best
system. The testing is completed now and the data is being analyzed as the
advisory committee considers which system it will recommend to the FCC, a
decision scheduled for February. After official field tests, the FCC is expected
to announce a standard later in 1993.

We recently had the opportunity to see some of the vigorous HDTV
lobbying under way in Washington at a gathering of the Maximum Service
Television Association (MSTV). This was the sixth annual HDTV conference
conducted by MSTV, a broadcasters group. It was titled Countdown to Con-
sensus, since it would be the last such meeting before the FCC decision.

The only consensus evident, however, was among broadcasters who are
extremely wary of high-definition technology and most reluctant to embrace
it. In an era of dwindling audience share and advertising revenues, these
broadcasters are unable to see how the significant investment required to up-
grade their facilities for HDTV would bring them additional revenue.

Broadcasters, especially in smaller markets, feel beleaguered. Throughout
the day, conferees struggled to get a handle on how much they would have to
invest in HDTV conversion and how they could earn it back. Estimates
ranged from $2 million to $15 million, leading one to note if that were truly
the magnitude of the investment, he just would go out of business.

Another asked FCC Chairman Alfred Sikes point-blank, “We're forced to
invest $10 to $15 million with little or no chance to recoup it. What’s the
benefit in addition to more lines of resolution?”

Sikes, who delivered the meeting’s keynote address, gave a two-part an-
swer: First, HDTV technology will open new avenues of creativity we can’t
even begin to imagine today. Second, failure to upgrade could sound a death
knell for the traditional broadcast system. “If General Motors hadn’t upgraded
its plants a few years ago, it would be dead today,” said Sikes. “Any industry
that fails to upgrade is dead.”

Richard Wiley, a former FCC chairman who now heads the Advisory
Committee on Advanced Television, sounded the same tone in his remarks.
“Advanced digital is not just about pretty pictures,” Wiley said. “It’s part of a
worldwide imaging revolution.”

We agree with the chairmen that digital technology represents the future
of video and communications. Video Magazine’s readers know well that the
movement has already begun and will soon accelerate, thanks to direct-broad-
cast satellites and other digital platforms. We expect savvy broadcasters will
find ways to adapt and evolve in the coming digital age. It won’t be a simple
transition. But the digital train will soon be leaving the station, and those
who aren’t on board will surely be left behind.

James M. Barry
Editor

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shooting format

After reading your comparison of five
S-VHS-C camcorders (‘‘Five Star
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purpose of the entire S-VHS-C format.
Who were these camcorders made for?
You state that “the picture quality of
camcorder formats like VHS-C and
8mm usually doesn’t cut it for serious
home video.” People interested in seri-
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Palm-sized camcorders were not intend-
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would purchase one.

Christian Kugel

Brenham, Texas

In “Five Star Shootout” you conclude
that some people will enjoy the extra
resolution of S-VHS-C camcorders and
the benefit of having tapes compatible
with an S-VHS VCR. I believe the real-
ity is that people looking for quality
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ter the camcorder purchase.

The alternative is using the cam-
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Chopped-up classics

Readers who may have bought any of
the Disney reissues of the Rocky and
Bullwinkle shows should know they’re
getting chopped-up versions. Disney has
edited out episode transitions to reduce
the amount of “filler” and keep the time
under 60 minutes for each cassette.

Hatchet Job: it was 5 Dare: not Boris and Natasha,
says a reader, that chopped Bullwinkle reissues.

“Wossamotta U.” was subjected to the
worst mangling, with almost 10 percent
of its 40-minute running time lopped off.
Disney has one hell of a lot of nerve to
mutilate someone else’s work, then label
it “Classic Stuff.”

William Sommerwerck

Bellevue, Washington

Reformed Betaphile

I must admit that when I first read
Roderick Woodcock’s suggestion to a
reader (“QGA,” May ’92) that he buy
an S-VHS VCR instead of an ED Beta
machine, I really thought he had come
off the spool. I own two Sony
EDV-9500s and one EDV-7500 and they
are superior performers in every way.
However, I now realize I’ve been duped
again, as Sony seems to have abandoned
the format.
When I needed some tape in a hurry,
I went directly to the Sony outlet on
Route 17 in New Jersey. When I asked to
buy some EL500 blank tapes, I was
treated like I had two heads. Then I paid
full list price ($20 each). After I calmed
down, I did some detective work and
purchased a JVC BR-S6000 S-VHS
VCR. Then I made some side-by-side
comparisons with the EDV-9500, using
a laserdisc for the source material. The
difference was so slight I would have to
recommend the S-VHS format.
Peter Milo
Suffern, New York

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Plan 9’s
lowly legacy

Few films have ever achieved the mix of
adulation and revulsion inspired by Plan
9 From Outer Space (1959). This made-
for-pennies science-fiction epic — writ-
ten, directed and produced by the legen-
dary auteur Edward D. Wood Jr. (Glen
or Glenda, Night of the Ghouls) — has
gained the reputation as one of the all-
time turkeys, a title that is instantly
placed on every “‘worst movies of all
time” list. With its ridiculous script, stu-
pid plot and overall technical incompe-
tence, Plan 9 offers everything you'd
ever hope to find in a truly dreadful
movie.

But is there more to the Plan 9 story?
This question sent Mark Patrick Car-
ducci scurrying all over Los Angeles for
several months in search of an answer.
The result is Flying Saucers Over Holly-
wood: The Plan 9 Companion, an invigo-
tating lll-minute video tribute to the
cinematic schlocker. Filmmaker Car-
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legacy of the 1959 cult classic through
some incredible anecdotes from actors
and production people who worked on
the film, commentary from aficionados

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like director Sam Raimi (the Evil Dead
series) and clips from Plan 9 and other
Wood works. Carducci draws a surpris-
ing conclusion: Yes, Plan 9 is an enter-
tainingly awful movie, but it should be
appreciated — even respected — for sev-
eral reasons.

Carducci admires Wood for “his de-
termination in making films his own way
and with no money. He had a way to
turn a phrase, and the dialog has a bi-
zarre eloquence to it. Although he
couldn’t afford special effects, at least he
used symbols for special effects. There
was a certain chutzpah to what he was
doing.” Still, Carducci wanted his pro-
duction to present an impartial look at
Plan 9, because “some people like it,
while others are offended by it.”

Originally called Grave Robbers From
Outer Space, Plan 9 tells the tale of alien
invaders who plan to take over the
Earth by transforming dead humans into
deadly zombies. The ensemble cast in-
cludes TV horror hostess Vampira, 350-
pound former wrestler Tor Johnson,
Hollywood psychic Criswell and a sadly
decrepit Bela Lugosi, who died before
filming actually began and was replaced
by a chiropractor in a cape who bears lit-
tle resemblance to the actor. Wood
merely inserted silent footage of Lugosi
he had shot earlier where needed.

-'“My friends and I decided to have a
party on May 6, 1991, the date Criswell
predicted flying saucers would land in
Washington, D.C.,” says Carducci. “We

watched Plan 9 on laserdisc. Makeup

man Harry Thomas and actor Conrad
Brooks showed up, and they recalled the
film’s production. We videotaped them,
and realized a few weeks later we should
make an entire film about Plan 9.”
Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The
Plan 9 Companion is available for $24.95
(plus $3.50 shipping) from Atomic Pic-
tures, Box 15824, North Hollywood, CA
91615. —Irv Slifkin

Clancy’s fancy

Harrison Ford studies the image on a
computer screen, electronically magni-
fying a tiny speck again and again until
he transforms a vague outline into a
clear image. This sequence from Patriot
Games (Paramount) is eerily reminis-
cent of Ford in an almost identical scene
from the 10-year-old sci-fi cult classic
Blade Runner. The difference is that
what was once a part of Blade Runner's
futuristic fantasy world is now featured
in one of writer Tom Clancy’s accurate
and detailed portraits of modern intel-
ligence technology.

So
Future Shock: Patriot Games’ Harrison Ford, aided
by a computer, zeroes in on a terrorist camp.

In another powerful scene from this
adaptation of Clancy's best-selling tech-
no-thriller novel, Ford and fellow intel-
ligence personnel use satellite surveil-
lance to pinpoint and destroy a terrorist
hideout. For all of us who’ve watched
real destruction on CNN and seen
phrases like “smart bomb” join the ver-
nacular, this scene’s cold, distant por-
trayal of “sterile” killing is now easier to
identify with than the more graphic vio-
lence we've grown accustomed to in
movies. The technology somehow
makes the scene feel disturbingly real.

Clancy’s technical expertise and ex-

aa

TIMESHIFT

TEN YEARS AGO IN VIDEO MAGAZINE
ad

A Chicago viewer has sued a local
station complaining about the poor
quality of a 3-D movie it broad-
cast... Three satellites were lost in
a single week in September, two in
the Atlantic Ocean and one that just
ran out of gas...Highly promising
CBS cable, offering the finest mix
of cultural and food-for-thought pro-
gramming around, called it quits af-
ter a little more than a year on the
air, blaming the economy...Accord-
ing to a study by the California
Board of Education, kids who watch
Dukes of Hazzard regularly score 4
percent lower on achievement tests
than kids who watch it only a little or
not at all. Even worse, kids who
watch Charlie's Angels, CHiPS and
The PTL Club score 10 to 15 percent
lower than non-viewers. The good
news is that kids who watch
M*A*S*H and the nightly news
scored 4 percent higher than other
kids...Sony is readying its first
shipment of stereo VCRs for the be-
ginning of next year and wants to
make sure folks have the perfect pro-
gramming for them. You know all
those music video clips you see on
MTV, Don Kirschner and USA Net-
work? Well, now you and your kids
will have a chance to pay for
them...Recommended gifts for
the holiday season: the Schudel Vid-
eo Telekaster ($495), an add-on
magnifying device that turns a 13-to
14-inch TV into a low-powered pro-
jection system; the Winegard
AT5001 indoor antenna ($54), which
stands more than six feet tall; the
Kloss Novabeam Model Two Moni-
tor ($2,200), the best front-projec-
tion set available to home users at
any price; the Sony KV-2645RS big-
screen 26-inch monitor ($1,250), a
stereo-ready set that’s a videophile’s

includes a 19-inch
TV, a seven-watt
audio amplifier, an
AM/EM tuner, an
audio cassette
deck and speakers
with separate
woofers and twee-

ters. .

DECEMBER 1992 VIDEO 11

THE NATION’S
first live simulcast
inn TSC and
HDTV was dem-
onstrated by the
Advanced Televi-

sion Research

Video
Flashes Consortium in
Washington,

D.C., on September 30. An evening
news program of WRC-TV, a local
NBC affiliate, was transmitted con-
ventionally, as well as in HDTV, to a
nearby hotel. The side-by-side com-
parison of 4:3 NTSC with 16:9 HDTV
dramatically showed the advantages of
the digital system, and that the two
signals can be transmitted without in--
terference.

MA AAAAAAAAAAAL

THE FIRST ANIMATED FEATURE
nominated for a Best Picture Oscar
can now be dissected frame by frame
with Walt Disney’s $50 “work-in-prog- —
ress” CAV laserdisc of Beauty and the
Beast (Image Entertainment). A
unique combination of finished color —
film and pencil animation, the letter-
boxed disc also boasts an alternate
version of “Be Our Guest,” theatrical
trailers and preliminary animation of
the Beast’s “transformation” scene. ©
Disney has no plans to release the fin- |
ished film on disc.

Clancy’s fancy
continued from page II

actitude caused some friction with the
creators of the film, but the writer was
pleased with the realism of these scenes,
according to Mace Neufeld, one of Patri-
ot Games’ producers. When Ford and
the filmmakers visited the CIA anti-ter-
rorist center, they found a number of
Clancy and Ford fans eager to help the
production. Says Neufeld: “We got in
because Harrison had a cup of coffee
with some of the guys and said, ‘Gee,
wouldn't it be great if I could see the
anti-terrorist room?’ ” The next thing
they knew, they were in the inner sanc-
tum with the production designer
sketching away. —Jon Silberg

A tale of :
2 videophones

“Is Your Head Melting, Or Is My Video-
Phone On the Blink Again?” asked The
New York Times headline. “AT&T's Vid-
eoPhone Doesn’t Measure Up To Its
Price Tag,” answered The Wall Street
Journal. With opening notices like these
| in two of America’s most prestigious

STILL WAITING FOR SKYPIX?
Don’t hold your breath. The pioneer-
ing effort to set up a direct-broadcast
satellite system is foundering. After
missing startup deadlines and losing
time it had leased for satellite trans-
ponders, SkyPix filed for bankruptcy.
The company, mired as well in several
lawsuits, had billed itself as “the entre-
preneurial story of 1992” for its prom-

_ ise of a system that would offer dozens

of movie channels plus traditional ca-
ble programs. At presstime, SkyPix
was due to submit reorganization

plans. ‘

KEVIN ADAMS’ 30-MINUTE TAPE
Can't Take That Away From Me won
Grand Prize in Sony's eighth annual
Visions of U.S. video contest. Two 14-
year-old Seattle residents, Gabriel Ju-
det-Weinshel and Aidan Fraser, took
First Prize for fiction video. Deadline
for next year’s contest is tentatively set
for June 15. Watch this space for fur-

ther details.

WE UNCOVERED MANY HIGH-
tech surprises at October’s Custom
Electronic Design and Installation As-
sociation (CEDIA) show in Dallas. —
First was a 58-inch, 16:9 widescreen
rear-projection monitor from Pan-

Call Watching: MCI's videophone, at $750 per
unit, is half the price of AT&T's VideoPhone.

newspapers, you would think the people

at AT&T would go into overtime trying
to get the good word out about its new
$1,499 voice and picture telephone.
Think again.

For months, Video Magazine has at-
tempted to acquire the VideoPhone to
see if this is the breakthrough product
that will herald a new age of video com-
munications. Before the negative no-
tices, we were told no units were
available. After they appeared, we were
told the phones were getting “new soft-
ware” and were not available.

Undeterred, I visited an AT&T
phone store in New York City, where the
VideoPhone 2500 is on display. Posing as
a customer, I suggested to the sales clerk
that I might plop down three grand on

asonic, which the company plans to
market next spring for about $6,000.
Harman Video showed a front projec-
tor/line doubler package that pro-
duced a big, near-HDTV quality
picture for a relatively paltry $10,000.
And Runco showed a prototype of a
$5,000 high-end laserdisc player that
combines a rugged Matsushita side-
changing transport with improved dig-
ital video and audio circuitry.

°
A TOP COP HAS COME OUT
shooting, and the camcorder is his
weapon of choice. Accused of using
“Gestapo tactics” to collect traffic
fines and other court-ordered judg-
ments, New York City sheriff Philip
Crimaldi has ordered his repo squads
to videotape every one of the 117,000
cars, trucks and businesses his office
seizes in a typical year. If local officials
want to pursue their charges, “they
can look at the videotape,”’ says
Crimaldi. ‘

THAT OLD CAMCORDER OR
video camera you don’t use could be
furthering the cause of human rights
rather than gathering dust in a closet.
The Witness program provides video
equipment to human rights activists
around the world. Call 212-598-3646

for more information.

the spot to buy a pair of VideoPhones if I
could get an actual demonstration. Per-
haps I could videophone someone in an-
other store? Nope, said the clerk, AT&T
wasn’t doing demos.

But there was a sales video I could
watch. As the tape, fed by a VCR, start-
ed to play, a swirling glob of mushy col-
ors appeared on the VideoPhone’s three-
inch-square LCD screen.

“Ts that supposed to be a person?” I
asked.

“T think so, but I’m not sure,” the
clerk replied.

“Does it always look this bad?” I
asked.

“Sorry, but there are no controls to
adjust it,” said the clerk.

Not content to let AT&T rest on its
laurels, MCI Communications has an-
nounced its own videophone. Priced at
$750, half the AT&T price, it will be
available early next year.

Both phones use compression tech-
nology to send 10 color video frames per
second over standard telephone lines,
although neither phone will be compati-
ble with the other. Both plug into a
home phone jack and permit video calls
for the same price as a conventional call.

Will the pictures be worth watching?
Stay tuned. —Frank Beacham

12 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

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do a lot of time-
shifting or who
collect videotapes
love the VHS EP
(or SLP) speed,
which squeezes six
hours of video
onto one T-120
tape. But record-
ing at EP causes a
significant drop in

VHS picture quality
VCR compared with SP,

although advances in EP recording have
helped close the gap. With the VC-
H96U, Sharp dramatically improves EP

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SHARP

Price: $570

Weight & Size (h/w/d):
10.4 Ibs.; 3-5/8 x 15 x
12-5/8 inches

Tape Format &
Speeds: VHS;
tecord—SP, EP;
play—SP, LP, EP

Video Heads: 6

Cue & Review Search:
SP/LP—5x, EP—15x

Fast Forward/Rewind
Time: approx. 5 min.
for T-120

Front-Panel Controls:
buttons for power,
eject, rewind/search,
play, fast forward/
search, stop, pause/still,
record, setup, TV/VCR,
add/erase, + and -;
slide switches for noise
reduction on/off and
fine head on/off

Remote Control: IR

Hi

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pictures by using an extra set of heads
optimized for EP playback
Conventional four-head VCRs use
the same pair of heads for EP and spe-
cial effects. These heads use a gap (the
tiny slot in the head where its magnetic
field is concentrated) about 30 microns
wide to lessen. noise in special-effects.
modes like search and still. Unfor-
tunately, 30-micron head gaps are much
larger than the diagonal video tracks re-
corded on the tape at the EP speed. The
result is that on playback, the head picks

-up the edges of other tracks, as well as

the track it’s supposed to read. This
causes noise. The VC-H96U’s dedicated
19-micron EP heads eliminate the over-

search up to 9 marks
in either direction

wireless with buttons
for VCR—power, eject,

Sharp aimed its

VC-H96U VHS

hi-fi VCR at the

many people who
like to tape at the slow EP speed. The
deck carries an extra set of video
heads with a 19-micron head gap de-
signed for better EP playback. Com-
bined with automatic noise reduction
and a midmount transport, this con-
figuration produces stunning results.
In both SP and EP, the picture quali-
ty of the VC-H96U is really out-
standing. Audio quality and ease of
use are both very good, making over-
all performance very good to excel-
lent. At $570, it’s a great buy —some
decks at this price have more fea-
tures, but few can match its picture.

TVVCR, menu, call,
onscreen, 10-digit key-
pad, 100, -, +, add/
erase, display, cancel,
SP/EP record, record,
standby, stop, play,
pause/still, slow, slow
speed/DPSS - and +,
frame advance, 2x, re-
wind/search, fast for-
ward/search, tamper
proof, zero back, repeat
and skip search; TV
(post-1985 Sharp mod-
els)—power, TV/video,
channel up and down,
volume up and down,
mute

Jacks: rear RF in and
out and video/stereo
audio in and out, front
video/stereo audio in

Program Start
Locator/Index/Cue:
index—auto mark,

14 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

Audio: linear mono,
hi-fi AFM stereo

Tuning Method:
frequency synthesis

Channel Selectors:
programmable scan on
VCR, scan plus direct
access on remote

Preset Method: auto
program with manual
add/erase

Cable Tuning Range:
A-8, 2 to 13, A to W,
AA to BBB, 65 to 94,
A-5 to A-1, 100 to 125

Timer: 8-event/1-year
plus simple timer with
24-hr. delay

Special Features: still
frame, frame advance,
slow motion, speed
play, midmount trans-
port, onscreen instruc-

tion coach, front-panel
input, skip search up to
2 min., random repeat,
tamper-proof function,
auto head cleaning,
auto noise reduction

Absent Features: au-
dio dub, video dub,
insert edit, titles/graph-
ics, fying erase head,
jog/shuttle dial, remote
pause jack, record
speed control on VCR,
VCR Plus, headphone
jack, mic jack, record-
ing level control

RESULTS

Horizontal Resolution:
250 lines

_S/N Ratios (dB): un-

weighted video—46.6
SP, 42.6 EP; weighted
video—52.3 SP, 51.1

EP; chroma AM—48
SP, 43.5 EP; chroma
PM—40.9 SP, 39.1 EP
Audio Frequency
Response: hi-fi—20
Hz-20 kHz, +0.1/-1.8
dB; linear (-3 dB)—80
Hz-11 kHz SP, 75 Hz-4
kHz EP

Hi-Fi Dynamic Range:
86.4 dB

Linear Audio S/N:
43.1 dB

Audio, Distortion: hi-
fi—0.3%, linear—0.9%

RATINGS
Picture: excellent
Audio: very good
Ease of Use:
very good

Overall:
very good/excellent

PAUSE/
AY FRR MSTOP MST

Head Game;

Two of the video heads
on Sharp’s VC-H96U
use 19-micron head
gaps optimized for EP
recording and playback.

MID-DRIVE

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MOUNTED MECHANISM

lap and clean up the EP picture.

However, squeezing six video heads
and two audio heads on the same drum
is difficult because it also requires two
extra transformers, which are used to
transfer signals from the spinning part of
the drum to the stationary part. If Sharp
had used the flat rotary transformers
found in most VCRs, the transformers
would have been too close together and
crosstalk (signal leakage from one chan-
nel into another) would have resulted.
Instead, Sharp uses stacked cylindrical
rotary transformers to reduce the inter-
ference.

The result of all this careful engi-
neering is a cleaner EP picture much
closer to that obtained at the SP speed.
A midmount cassette transport mecha-
nism reduces mechanical vibration fur-
ther, improving picture quality at all
speeds.

Sharp also made the machine very
easy to use by restricting the number of
controls on the VCR, putting all but
power and eject inside a compartment
to produce a clean uncluttered look, and
adding a simplified onscreen instruction
manual for the common functions. The
VC-H96U has many modern features,
like front input jacks, frame advance,
slow motion, double-speed play, segment
repeat (which marks and repeats a user-
selected segment of tape), skip search
(which advances the tape in 30-second
increments at the touch of a button)
and a tamper-proof function locking sys-
tem. It doesn’t have the features you

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In an effort to
make big-screen
TV more practical
for those with lit-
tle space, and
more attractive to
those with an
aversion to giant,
room-dominating
components, some
manufacturers
have begun offer-
ing slim rear-pro-

VIDEOTEST

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41-inch

rear- ariel oe By
projectiOn. tubes upward,

they can trim
TV set more than a foot
of depth, making the sets thin enough to
fit in most living rooms. Sony’s
KPR-41EXR95 is perhaps the most ele-
gant realization of this concept. It pro-
duces a 41-inch picture, but its cabinet is
only 20 inches deep — about the same as

Lean and Mean:
Sony's KPR-41EXR95
41-inch TV set is only
as deep as most 20-
inch sets, and offers
top-notch rear-projection
performance.

With the KPR-
41EXR95, Sony
carries the trend
toward slim rear-

HIGHLIGHT

projection sets to a new level—the
set is only as deep as most 20-inch di-
rect-view sets. As a re-
sult, it can bring the
large picture required
for home theater into
much smaller rooms.

And it works this mira-
cle without sacrificing
quality or features. Pic-
ture quality is excel-
lent, and audio, ease of
use and overall perfor-
mance are very good to
excellent. At $2,799,
it’s a bit pricey, but un-
deniably hard to resist.

a 20-inch direct-view set.

The set carries enough features to
satisfy almost any videophile. It offers
picture-in-picture and a Hughes SRS
audio system, which produces surround-
sound effects using only the two speak-
ers inside the set. Its crowded rear panel
offers three video inputs, as well as a
monitor (selected source) output, and
the front panel has an input for easy
camcorder connection.

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Three program palette modes let a
user optimize picture and sound for dif-
ferent types of program material. The
movie mode boosts sharpness and cre-
ates theaterlike audio effects. The sports
mode boosts brightness and provides
stadium sound effects. And the news
mode reduces picture noise while opti-
mizing audio for voices.

The set also offers switchable noise
reduction, selectable color temperature
(10,500 or 8,850 Kelvins), channel cap-
tioning, onscreen labels (such as “WHS”
and “LD”) for video inputs, three on/off
timer settings, channel block (which
locks out channels you don’t want the
kids to watch), convergence from the
remote control and onscreen menus in
English, Spanish or French.

The sides and back make it look
more like a graceful, gently curved
sculpture than the bulky projection TV
sets we’re used to. The front is quite
simple, with the screen reaching to
within a few inches of the top and sides.
Below the screen sit buttons for power,
channel, volume and input. A small
compartment below hides video/stereo
audio jacks for video 3 input (duplicated
on the rear) and buttons for demo, re-
turn/favorite and the menu system.

The remote control also operates
many brands of VCRs, laserdisc players
and cable boxes. It offers the usual con-
trols for channel, volume, mute, sleep
(30-, 60- or 90-minute off timer), input
select and other functions, plus picture
plus and minus buttons and menu sys-
tem controls. Picture-in-picture controls
include on/off, swap, freeze, input select,
position (in any corner of the screen),
channel (when the inset picture comes
from the tuner) and audio swap, which
switches to the audio that accompanies
the inset picture. A sliding cover reveals
buttons for controlling a VCR or a laser-
disc player.

Using the set is relatively straightfor-
ward. The primary operating control is
the remote. Direct channel access re-
quires that you press the enter button
after making a keypad selection. Many
options, including almost all picture and
audio adjustments, are made with four
buttons.

Some operations — such as adjusting
brightness, tint and other picture pa-
rameters— require many button pushes.
However, the reduced number of but-
tons minimizes remote clutter. The
demo button in the front compartment
serves as a simplified instruction manu-
al, and tells you what appears on each
submenu.

Unlike some other Sony sets, the
KPR-41EXR95 has no second tuner for
the PIP—you’'ll have to connect a video
source to use the feature. To watch two

continued on page 27

Sony

KPR-41EXR95
41-Inch Rear-
Projection

Monitor/ Receiver

Price: $2,799

Weight & Size (h/w/d):
158.8 Ibs.; 46-3/4 x
36-5/8 x 20 inches

Screen Size:
41 inches diagonally

Speaker Size: 5-inch
woofer and 1.4-inch
tweeter for each chan-
nel

Type of Tuning:
frequency synthesis

Method of Tuning:
programmable scan on
set, scan plus direct
access on remote

Broadcast Tuning
Range: 2 to 13,
14 to 69

Cable Tuning Range:
125 channels—A-8, 2
to 13, A to W, W+1 to
W:+58, A-5 to A-1,
W+59 to W+84

Remote Control: IR
wireless with switches
for VIR 1/2/3/MDP and
TVi/cable box; buttons
for muting, sleep, pow-
er, 10-digit keypad,
enter, TV/video, display,
jump, A/V window +
and -, menu, return/fa-
vorite, picture + and -,
and volume +/- rocker;
PIP buttons—channel +
and -, freeze, TV/video,
position, swap, audio,
PIP and off; covered
VTR/MDP buttons for
TV/VTR, code set,
standard, power, chan-
nel + and -, rewind/
search, play, fast for-
ward/search, stop play
and record (2 buttons)

Inputs: rear—1 S-vid-
eo/video/stereo audio, 2
video/stereo audio, cen-
ter speaker (right/left
pair, 50 watts max.), 1

RF; front—1 video/ster-
eo audio (duplicate of
video 3)

Outputs: 1 S-video/vid-
eo/stereo audio, 1
video/stereo audio
(loop-through of input
3), 1 fixed stereo audio,
1 variable stereo audio

Internal Audio
Amplifier Power:
2 x 12 watts

Special Features: very
shallow footprint,
Hughes SRS sound,
PIP, multibrand remote,
picture palette, three-
setting on/off timer, op-
tional VCR shelf,
channel block, English/
Spanish/French menus,
switchable noise reduc-
tion, selectable color
temperature

Absent Features:
headphone jack, front-
panel S-video input,
second tuner for un-
aided PIP, external
speaker connectors, in-
ternal Dolby Pro-Logic
decoder

RESULTS

Horizontal Resolution:
760 lines

Picture S/N (at picture
tubes, in dB): lumi-
nance—56.8 dB,
chroma AM—64.6,
chroma PM—63.4

Accuracy of Colors:
excellent

Audio Frequency
Response: line out—20
Hz-20 kHz, +/-1 dB;
speakers—20 Hz-15
kHz, +/-10 dB

Audio S/N: 71.3 dB

Total Harmonic
Distortion: less than
1%, SRS off

RATINGS
Picture: excellent

Audio:
very good/excellent

Ease of Use:
very good/excellent

Overall:
excellent/very good

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Image Improvement: Hitachi's VM-H39A uses a CCD sensor with unusually high resolution to minimize picture degradation when its digital image stabilizer is activated.

For a couple of
years, camcorder
manufacturers
have called their
smallest machines
“pocket-size,”
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have a tough time
finding a pocket
they would fit in.
But with the VM-
H39A, Hitachi

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simple operation, with no manual con-
trol of exposure or shutter speed, but the
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video goodies. These include an elec-
tronic image stabilizer (EIS), a 64x digi-
tal zoom, and modes for 16:9 recording,
black-and-white, sepia tone and sunset
compensation. On many camcorders,
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blessing — they’re fun and sometimes
useful, but they often degrade the pic-
ture. Electronic image stabilizers and
digital zooms decrease the number of
pixels used, effectively “throwing away”
much of the resolution of the CCD for
the sake of a steadier picture or higher

camcorder has created a Hi8
camcorder that
really does fit in a large coat pocket.
Hitachi designed the VM-H39A for
Hitachi VM-H39A Distance: 1/2 hed
i wide-angle, 3 feet
MiB Camcorder — | erephoto
Autofocus: TTL
Minimum Illumination:
5.3 lux for 50 IRE
Iris: auto with BLC
Auto Fade: to white,
trigger-operated
Price: $1,799

Weight & Size (h/w/d):
1.3 Ibs.; 4 x 3-1/4 x
9-1/2 inches

Image Sensor: 1/3-inch
CCD, 470,000 pixels

Lens: {/1.4, 8x
(6-48mm) power zoom
with macro

Filter Diameter: 34mm

Minimum Focusing

Shutter Speeds (sec.):
(full auto only) 1/60,
1/100, 1/120, 1/250

White Balance: auto
with black-and-white,
sepia and sunset en-
hancement options

Viewfinder: 0.7-inch
color LCD, with diopter
and onscreen indicators
for auto exposure shut-
ter speed, manual
focus, battery condition,

zoom magnification,
zoom mode, no tape,
digital filter mode, EIS,
Hi8, record, time zone,
time and date

Viewfinder Controls:
diopter focus, position,
brightness, color and
tint

VCR Controls: play,
fast forward/search, re-
wind/search, stop,
pause, camera run/stop
and eject

Microphone: stereo
electret condenser

Jacks: multipin A/V in/
out

Hi8/8mm SP
Video Heads: 4

approx. 7x
Fast Forward/Rewind

Tape Format & Speed:

Cue & Review Search:

Time: 7 min. 56 sec./8
min. 45 sec. for P6-120

Remote Pause:
through A/V edit cable

Remote Control: IR
wireless with buttons

4 for rewind/search, fast

forward/search, stop,
play/A/V dub safety,
AN dub (record),
pause/camera start/
camera stop, tele, wide,
display, counter reset,
title on/off

Audio: hi-fi AFM stereo

Titles/Graphics: 2
pages, each 2 lines of
16 characters

Special Features: still
frame, insert edit, 16:9
mode, sepia tone
mode, black-and-white
mode, sunset enhance-
ment, image stabilizer,

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Despite being one
of the smallest
camcorders ever
made, Hitachi’s
$1,800 VM-H39A boasts some of the
most sophisticated digital processing
we've seen. Because it uses a high-
resolution sensor, its image stabilizer
does not degrade the picture, and its
digital zoom provides surprisingly
clear images. It also offers wide-
screen, black-and-white, sepia and
sunset modes. Picture quality is good
to very good, audio quality is fair,
ease of use is excellent and overall
performance is good to very good.

patentee Seemed

flying erase head,
counter memory, two-
mode digital zoom (16x
or 64x), color view-
finder, video light with
powered accessory
shoe, case

Absent Features:
frame advance, slow
motion, speed play, au-
dio dub, video dub,
indexing, manual shut-
ter speed adjustment,
mic jack, two-speed
zoom, headphone jack,
standard S-video/video/
stereo audio output

RESULTS

Horizontal Resolution:

camera—480 lines,
Hi8—400 lines, 8mm—
250 lines

S/N Ratios (dB): un-
weighted luminance—

40.3, weighted lumi-
nance—48.2,
unweighted video—
39.8, weighted video—
47.7, chroma AM—
41.7, chroma PM—37.5

Audio Frequency
Response: 200 Hz-14
kHz, +0.4/-3 dB; -16.9
dB at 20 Hz; -6.6 dB at
20 kHz

Hi-Fi Dynamic Range:
78.4 dB

Audio Distortion: 0.3%
RATINGS

Picture:
good/very good

Audio: fair
Ease of Use: excellent

Overall:
good/very good

22 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

magnification.

To overcome this limitation, Hitachi
uses a 470,000-pixel sensor in the VM-
H39A, instead of the 410,000-pixel units
used in most Hi8 camcorders. This lets
the digital circuitry discard some of the
resolution, but still have more than
enough for full Hi8 picture quality.
Thus, the VM-H39A’s image stabilizer
doesn’t degrade the picture, and its digi-
tal zoom provides sharp images well into
the 30x range. Even 64x images are us-
able.

The camcorder also has a color LCD
viewfinder for a more natural feel as you
shoot. However, the viewfinder’s hori-
zontal resolution is only about 200
lines —half that of Hi8 tape — which
makes manual focusing less precise.

The VM-H39A is about the size of a
VHS cassette but about three times as
thick. It weighs 1.3 pounds stripped
down and about 2 pounds ready to
shoot, with battery and cassette. One of
the biggest surprises is its apparent sim-
plicity. There are only a few camera con-
trols— buttons for zoom mode, EIS,
digital filter, fade, backlight compensa-
tor and autofocus on/off, and a thumb-
wheel for manual focus. The zoom
button gives a choice of 2x digital zoom
for a maximum of 16x, an 8x digital
zoom for a maximum of 64x, and 16:9.
The widescreen mode squeezes the pic-
ture from the sides when viewed on a
conventional 4:3 set, but on widescreen
sets (which are due on the market with-
in months), the picture looks normal.

The digital filter offers the black-
and-white, sepia and sunset options.
Sepia mode gives the picture a brownish
cast, so it looks like an old photograph.
The sunset enhancement mode changes
the color balance to improve the look of
video shot at dusk.

The zoom rocker and run/stop but-
ton occupy their usual places. The bat-
tery fits into a cavity in the hand grip
and part of the grip’s bottom swings
away to allow changing the battery. A
compartment above the grip holds
brightness, color and tint controls for
the viewfinder. Forward of the grip sits a
powered accessory shoe for the supplied
video light. The light draws power from
the camcorder battery, which is conve-
nient, but reduces shooting time. A
compartment under the shoe houses the
single multipin input/output connector.

Buttons for camera/off/VCR mode,
playback control, eject, the character
titler, date, display and record review
(which lets you play the tape without
changing into the VCR modc) cover the
back panel.

The remote control is only half the
size of a credit card and about as thick as
a stack of five quarters. Its 11 touch pads

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control all basic playback functions, plus
start, stop, zoom, display, counter reset
and title on/off.

Using the camcorder is very easy be-
cause iris and white balance are fully au-
tomated and have no specific controls.
The shutter speed and iris operations are
controlled by artificial intelligence to
choose shutter speeds between 1/60- and
1/250-second with the appropriate iris
for a correctly exposed picture. The
BLC button opens the iris about 1.5
stops for backlit subjects. The only
slightly tedious chore is composing titles,

but having a character titler is a boon in }

a camcorder this small.

Its audio features are spartan —
there’s a wind noise switch for outdoor
shooting, but no jacks for an external
microphone or headphones.

The multipin connector for all in-
put/output connections means that you
must have the appropriate cord to make
connections to external devices. This
saves space on the tiny camcorder, but if
you lose it, you'll have to go to a Hitachi
dealer or service center for a replace-
ment. Dual clocks, one of which can be
set by time zone, make adjustment easy
when you're on the go. Ease of operation
is excellent.

Picture quality is good to very good,
a little noisier than some competing Hi8
camcorders. You will get a low-contrast

picture in 2 lux of light, Hitachi’s mini-
mum illumination rating, but to get a
picture with approximately 50 percent
contrast ratio (50 IRE) requires 5.3 lux.
Audio quality is fair compared to other
8mm/Hi8 camcorders we've measured.
We rate the VM-H39A good to very
good overall. While it doesn’t offer the
manual control options many advanced
videographers demand, casual shooters
should find it very simple to operate and
extremely easy to carry. And its high-
resolution CCD and clean, high-quality
digital processing are real innovations. m=

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Dropout prevention

There’s an easy way to prevent or reduce
the glitches caused by dropouts on vid-
eotape. If at all possible, don’t pause or
stop your VCR when playing a tape. Re-
wind it only when it has reached the
end. This minimizes wear and tear on
the tape because tape transport func-
tions can slightly flex the tape and cause
its coating to loosen.
Ted P. Cantrell
2nd Infantry Division, Korea

DECEMBER 1992 VIDEO 23

VIDEOTESTS

VIDEOTEST

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S-VHS-C
camcorder
fixed-focal-length

The JVC GR-SZ1
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Image Sensor: 1/3-inch
CCD, 410,000 gross

Lens: multimode—f/1.8,
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Filter Diameter: 46mm,
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Minimum Focusing
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Autofocus: TTL

Minimum Illumination:
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Iris: auto switchable to
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Auto Fade:
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accesses programmed exposure modes
that include portrait, sports, front-lit,
back-lit, strobe, classic film, slow shutter
and twilight settings. Digital processing
provides an electronic image stabilizer to
take the shake out of handheld shots, a
2x zoom extender usable in all the opti-
cal modes, a snapshot effect with bor-
ders and a shutter-click sound effect, a
cinema (letterbox) mode with black bor-
ders on the top and bottom, and a 16:9
squeeze mode for use with future wide-
screen TV sets. There’s also a color LCD

viewfinder and a power focus ring.

Viewfinder: 0.7-inch
LCD with diopter and
onscreen indicators for
zoom level, iris level,
digital zoom, image sta-
bilizer, voice position,
manual focus, low con-
trast for AF, S-VHS,
record speed, operating
mode, scene mode,
memory, counter, time
remaining, fader,
squeeze, autofocus
square, dew, head clog,
low battery, insert edit-
ing, clock battery, date,
time, birthday/age
Viewfinder Controls:
angle, diopter focus,
brightness, color, tint

VCR Controls: fast for-
ward/search, play,
rewind/search, stop,
pause, random-assem-
ble edit start/stop

Microphone: stereo
electret condenser

Jacks: mic, mic power,
AV out, S-video out,
remote out

Tape Formats &
Speeds: S-VHS-
C/VHS-C, SP/EP

Video Heads: 4

Cue & Review Search:

3x SP, (x EP

Fast Forward/Rewind
Time: 3 min. for TC-30

Remote Pause: ran-
dom-assemble edit out

Remote Control: IR
wireless with wired re-
mote pause jack and
buttons for record run/
stop, tele and wide-an-
gle on one side; other
side—rewind/search,
fast forward/search,
stop, play, VCR control,
pause, multibrand re-
mote preset and
tandom-assemble edit
controls

Super VHS

Video Microscope:

A tubular attachment
that fits between the
main optics and the re-
movable wide-angle
lens lets JVC's GR-SZ1
fill a TV screen with mi-
croscopic images. The

remote control (below)
has zoom and start/
stop controls on the
front and VCR controls
on the back.

We don’t rate
camcorders on
features, but if we
did, we’d certainly
rate JVC’s $1,999 S-VHS-C GR-SZ1
excellent. Its versatile lens uses a de-
tachable front element and an exten-

sion tube to prod

angle and microscope modes. A pro-
grammed auto expo-
sure system offers
many scene options,
and it also has an im-
age stabilizer. Picture

quality is very good

S-VHS, hi-fi audio is
very good and overall
performance is good to

very good.

uce super-wide-

for

Audio: linear mono,
hi-fi AFM stereo
Special Features: color
viewfinder, flying erase
head, still frame, ran-
dom-assemble edit,
image stabilizer

RESULTS

Horizontal Resolution:
§-VHS—380 lines,
VHS—250 lines

S/N Ratios (dB): un-
weighted luminance—
40.6 SP, 40.2 EP;
weighted luminance—
48.4 SP, 48 EP; un-
weighted video—37.3
SP, 36.5 EP; weighted
video—43.8 SP, 43.2
EP; chroma AM—40
SP, 36.8 EP; chroma
PM—85 SP, 32.4 EP

Audio Frequency
Response: hi-fi—20
Hz-20 kHz, +1.5/-0.6;
linear (-3 dB)—75
Hz-7.5 kHz SP, 75 Hz-4
kHz EP

Hi-Fi Dynamic Range:
76.8 dB

Linear Audio S/N:
41.3 dB

Audio Distortion: hi-
fi—0.4%, linear—0.9%

RATINGS
Picture:

S-VHS—very good,
VHS—average/good
Audio: hi-fi—very good,
linear—average

Ease of Use: good

Overall:
good/very good

24 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

With all these great features, it’s easy
to overlook the innovative infrared re-
mote control. It’s the first camcorder re-
mote we’ve seen that also controls
popular brands of VCR. You can use this
capability in conjunction with an eight-
scene editing controller built into the
camcorder to automate your editing.
You enter the beginning and end points
of each scene with a button on the re-
mote, and an onscreen display shows the
start and stop times of each scene. Push-
ing the RAE start button on the cam-
corder automatically records these
scenes on the tape in the VCR.

JVC calls this feature random-as-
semble edit, or R.A. edit. It gives you ap-
proximately the same capabilities you'd
get using a LANC-equipped 8mm or
Hi8 camcorder with an editing control-
ler, except that the controller would
cost about $250. JVC threw this one in
with the camcorder! The optional RM-
V20U remote lets you perform audio
dubs, video dubs and insert edits.

The GR-SZI lacks a few of the fea-

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The GR-SZ1 looks like other JVC
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switches have been replaced by rotary
controls. One of these is an unusual
manual iris control near the lens with an
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The left side has an auto/manual fo-
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buttons further back for the image stabi-
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shows the mode of the scene selector,
which is controlled by a rotary knob
with an on/off button at its center. Fur-
ther down sit buttons for display, fader
and snapshot.

Most scene selector modes are self-
explanatory. Exceptions are the classic
film mode, which uses a high-speed
strobe to simulate old-time movie flick-
er; the slow shutter, which lowers the
shutter speed below 1/60-second and al-
lows shooting in very low light (JVC
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you can’t use the image stabilizer with
the strobe.

Tilting the viewfinder up exposes a
menu button, rocker controls, and but-
tons for date/time select, set and display
mode. The menu controls seven func-
tions, including 16:9, voice enhance-
ment and a macro mode for use with
weatherproof housings.

The power switch on the top panel
has positions for play, off, camera lock
and camera release. The lock mode pro-
vides fully automatic operation, and the
release mode allows the use of manual
overrides. A panel on the rear has for-
ward and reverse buttons for retake
(edit search). The panel lifts to reveal
transport controls for playback.

The remote control has buttons on
both sides. On one side are camcorder
controls for tele, wide and run/stop. On
the other are controls for playback, and
the R.A. edit controls for in/out point
marking, on/off, cancel and VCR record
standby. Holding down the VCR control
button on this side lets you use the play-
back buttons to control a VCR. The
front has a mini-jack for use in an R.A.
edit setup.

The lens system offers an 8x zoom
mode, an 11x zoom mode (accessed by
twisting the front lens until it pops out
slightly), a wide-angle mode activated
by removing the front lens element, and
a microscope mode that requires insert-
ing a special tube between the detach-
able element and built-in lenses.

The microscope mode delivers 344x
magnification on a 35-inch TV set if you
use 2x zoom. The smaller the set, the
lower the magnification.

The GR-SZI’s features are sure to
appeal to creative shooters, but the au-
tomated systems never give the operator
full control, which might frustrate ex-
pert shooters. The control layout is un-
usual, and experienced videographers
may need a little extra time to grow ac-
customed to it. Ease of use is good and
improves with practice.

Picture quality of S-VHS recordings
is very good; for VHS recordings it is av-
erage to good. We made our measure-
ments from tapes recorded on other
machines, which slightly reduces meas-
ured performance, because the GR-SZ1
can’t record line-level signals from test
generators. The rated minimum illu-
mination of 1 lux is achieved only in the
slow-shutter mode. At normal shutter
speed, a minimum of 6.2 lux is required
for a picture with 50 IRE units. The im-
age stabilizer compromises resolution
slightly, but because it uses a sensor with
higher resolution than most S-VHS-C
camcorders, the degradation is not as
great as might be expected.

Audio quality of the hi-fi tracks is

very good, and average for the linear
track. But unless you use the audio dub
function available through the optional
RM-V20U remote, or record tapes in
VHS-C and play them on a mono VHS
VCR, you'll probably never use the lin-
ear track audio.

We rate the GR-SZ1 good to very
good overall. The feature package is just
unbelievable, and most of the bells and
whistles are surprisingly useful. It does-
n’t offer the traditional manual options
of camcorders like JVC’s larger GR-
$505, but most videographers will be so
enthralled with the many special effects,
auto exposure modes and focal ranges
that they won’t notice. P]

VHS VER

continued from page 15

need for editing, like audio dub, video
dub, insert edit, a remote pause jack, re-
cord speed control on the VCR and a
more detailed front panel display.

The front panel is simple. The cas-
sette hatch is above the display area,
and both are centered. The power and
eject buttons are set into the display
face. Other controls hide in a compart-
ment at right. The hidden controls in-
clude all major transport functions, like
play and stop, and buttons for other im-
portant functions, like channel select
and manual tracking. Also in the com-
partment are switches for noise reduc-
tion on/off (edit) and fine (19-micron)
head on/off.

There are two sets of video/stereo
audio input jacks, one front and one
back, and one set of video/stereo audio
output jacks in back. The rear panel also
holds the usual RF (antenna/cable) in-
put and output connectors.

The remote is the primary operating
control. Not only does.it access many of
the more advanced features, it also oper-
ates the power, input selector, channel
and volume for recent Sharp TV sets.
The only really unusual control is the
tamper proof button. Pushing it for two
seconds locks all controls on the deck
and the remote. Pushing it again for two
seconds releases the lock.

Basic operation is very easy from ei-
ther the VCR or the remote, but some
options, like record speed selection,
frame advance, double-speed playback,
slow play, index search and zero return,
can only be accessed from the remote.
These days, though, that’s not unusual.
Of those, you’re most likely to miss the
record speed selector, frame advance
and slow-motion buttons on the VCR.

The deck’s digital program search
system (DPSS) seeks up to nine index
marks in either direction. The blue

screen that mutes the noisy picture you
get between channels may be shut off.
The display automatically dims when
the VCR is off. In addition to the stand-
ard onscreen timer, there is a simple
timer with up to 24-hour delay that
takes precedence over the program tim-
er. Among the features you may miss are
a remote pause jack for dubbing and
editing, audio dub, insert edit and a fly-
ing erase head. Ease of use is very good.

When we hooked the VC-H96U up
to the test equipment, we were im-
pressed by the results of Sharp’s engi-
neering efforts. Our measurements were
among the best we’ve seen in this class
of VCR. We made them with the 19-mi-
cron heads turned on. You might wish to
turn them off for clearer SP special ef-
fects. When they are turned off, video
signal-to-noise measurements are 0.3
decibels lower, and chroma measure-
ments are 1.4 to 2 dB lower. One sur-
prise is that switching on the 19-micron
head, which should affect only EP re-
cording, has a slight positive effect on SP
recordings, too. Picture quality is excel-
lent.

Sound quality is very good, although
the deck lacks advanced audio features
like recording level control and a mic
jack. Our overall rating is very good to
excellent. It’s an ideal deck for home
theater buffs and video archivists —
you'll have a hard time finding better

VHS picture quality. a |

PROJECTION TV

continued from page 16

channels at once, you'll need to use both
the set’s tuner and the tuner in a VCR.
Ease of use is very good to excellent.

Picture quality and accuracy of col-
ors are excellent. Sony rates screen
brightness at 2,000 candellas per square
meter (583.8 footlamberts) and we
measured it at 174 footlamberts. There is
no standard for measuring the screen
brightness of a projection television.

Audio quality is very good to excel-
lent. The speakers produce surprisingly
low frequencies, with usable response
down to 20 Hertz. Although you can use
the speakers as a center channel in a
Pro-Logic system, their timbre probably
won’t match your main speakers.

The Sound Retrieval System uses
phase and amplitude modification to
recreate a three-dimensional sound field
for room-filling sound for stereo mate-
tial. It also simulates stereo from mono
material.

Overall, we find the KPR-41EXR95
an excellent to very good TV set. Its pic-
ture and sound pleased us greatly, but its
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Sharp liberates the eye
with ViewCam design

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
Hitachi's three new hi-fi VCRs include the versatile
VT-F462 ($600). It blends VCR Plus programming
with such editing features as VHS index search, [i
synchro edit, program edit, a shuttle ring, a flying f&
erase head, audio/video dubbing and front inputs.
Other features include a programmed remote, high-
speed rewind and an onscreen owner's manual.
(For additional information, circle 156 on the Read-
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FX GOES Hi8
Sony’s FX-series Handycams go Hi8 with the intro-
duction of the CCD-FX710. The FX710 ($1,400)
has all the features of the earlier 8mm CCD-FX510,
including hi-fi stereo sound, a digital superimposer,
1-lux low-light capability, program auto exposure,
and a “home base” adapter/charger unit. Greater
manual exposure control has been added to the
FX710. (For additional information, circle 159 on
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FUNCTION PLUS STYLE
Samsung's 27-inch TC2770S monitor/receiver
($670) features an MTS decoder with dbx noise re-
duction. Along with standard A/V connections,
S-video jacks are on both the rear and the front
panels. Other features include programmable chan-
nel scan, a 33-key remote control and onscreen
display. The crisp design reflects Samsung’s new
emphasis on style. (For additional information, cir-
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PRISM POWER
Canon's newest lens for its Hi8 L1 camcorder sys-
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Hitachi's new VMH39A
camcorder is a small miracle in size
only. Tipping the scales at a mere 1.3
lbs., it'll take a big weight off your
shoulders. And its super-compact size
and shape literally fits in your coat
pocket or purse.

This rugged, full-featured cam-
corder is a very big miracle, though,
when it comes to performance which
is State-of-the-art in every way.

Acolor viewfinder allows you to

SMALL MIRACLE.

check color, contrast and light so that
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A computer-controlled electronic
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during recording.

Shooting, including focus, is
completely automatic with shutter
speed and iris synchronized for
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stereo.

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Picture quality is absolutely
unbeatable thanks to Artificial Intelli-
gence, DSP 16X zoom and a Hi-Band
8mm format that delivers the highest
resolution available today.

To see the VMH39A in per-
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the miracle isn’t how small it is, but

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i8 and S-VHS camcorders have el-

evated home videography to al-

most professional levels. Today’s

best home videos look like TV pro-
grams —that is, until the titles appear.
They’re usually blocky, crude and plain,
the product of an inexpensive chip in-
side a camcorder or a VCR. Even view-
ers who don’t know a lens from a
viewfinder immediately identify videos
as home-grown when they see these am-
ateurish titles.

The problem is, most character gen-
erators capable of producing good-look-
ing titles cost thousands of dollars. But
Videonics has now brought professional-
quality titles within easy reach of enthu-
siasts with its $500 TitleMaker.

Titles from the TitleMaker actually
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cable channels. No matter which of the
fonts you choose, the edges are smooth.
The text isn’t quite as smooth as that
from a Video Toaster, but for the price,
it’s unbelievably good.

The TitleMaker doesn’t just type out
text —it offers more creative options
than you could probably ever use. These
include 12 type fonts (four small, five
midsize and three large), outlines, shad-
ows, three degrees of letter spacing and
three character thicknesses for bold type
effects. Borders can be placed above, be-
low, beside or around blocks of text.

You can use pictures from a cam-
corder or a VCR as the background, or
generate a colored background. The
characters, outlines, borders and back-
ground can be any colors you wish—an
onscreen color mixer lets you choose
from more than a million.

Titles can be scrolled in from the
side or the bottom, dissolved in and out,
and wiped in from the center or any of
the edges. You can adjust the duration
of all these effects. The TitleMaker can
memorize more than 8,000 characters,
and produce multiple pages of text that
can be called up automatically. You can
even program a series of pages so that
the TitleMaker will bring them up and
remove them automatically.

The TitleMaker also lets you substi-
tute patterns for solid colors. The ones
we liked best were the 16 pixel patterns,
which can be produced in any color.
Some look like a nighttime sky, some

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like candy sprinkles, some offer grid pat-
terns, and two even give you a Star
Wars-type “traveling through space” ef-
fect by scrolling the stars upward. It also
offers 16 rainbow patterns. Any of the
backgrounds can be mixed with live vid-
eo at any level you choose.

It has S-video and video inputs and
outputs, and a QWERTY keyboard big
enough for touch typing. Basic operation
is simple and intuitive — onscreen menus
guide the user through selection of
fonts, colors and patterns.

The only problem we encountered is
that a few of the options don’t work well

when combined with other options. For
example, tightening letter spacing can
chop pieces off a character’s outline,
causing the background to become the
same color as the character. Also, the
boldest type thickness doesn’t work well
in some fonts. But once you use the
TitleMaker for a few hours, you'll learn
what works and what doesn’t.

We're thrilled that someone has fi-
nally come up with a good video titler
that doesn’t cost thousands of dollars
and take a lot of effort to use. For home
videographers, the TitleMaker is a
dream come true. 5

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BY RON GOLDBERG

FROM THANKSGIVING TO NEW.
Year’s Day, the spirit of good will
seems to walk hand in hand with
the desire to buy a few gifts. But it’s
an urge easily undermined by the |
chore of choosing from among so
many products. This year’s Gift _
Guide is designed to add spirit to _
your holiday giving, and perhaps in-
spire a gift for yourself. In the fol-
lowing pages, contributing editors
Ron Goldberg and Martin Broch-
stein recommend an array of video
and audio components, videogames
and multimedia players, while assis-
tant editor April P. Bernard com-
piles a stocking stuffer’s film festival
of non-traditional holiday movies.
Finally, for the enthusiast who has
absolutely everything, senior editor
Brent Butterworth raises the curtain
on the ultimate gift, a home theater
system so real, you'll forget you're
watching a movie.

h, the holidays. That magnificent
time of year when anxious video-
philes everywhere hold their
'breath—and wait. Those who have
to play Santa for these affected souls ac-
tually have it pretty easy. After all, you
always know what an A/V enthusiast re-

In-Screen Menu:

The Fox 800 universal
remote uses an LCD
display.

Switch Hitter: JVC's JX-300 switcher is an elegant, inexpensive way to boost system flexibility.

ally wants. And for the videophile who
has everything? Don’t worry, because
there’s no such thing. Just in case the
tapehead nearest and dearest to you
hasn’t dropped enough hints, here are
some of the newest toys we’d like to re-
ceive as seasonal greetings. And we’ve
been good too, Santa— honest!

SONY MDP-455
LASERDISC PLAYER

A home theater without laserdisc is
like a meal without dessert. It’s just not
complete. Now that the connoisseut’s

Platter Up:
The MDP-455 offers top features at a good price.

format is at the peak of its popularity,
several manufacturers have introduced
second- and third-generation units that

outperform some top-of-the-line players
of just a few years hence. The new
MDP-455 from Sony is a good example,
incorporating high-end enhancements
at an entry-level $599 price. You get a
digital timebase corrector, which re-
duces any picture jitter; a comb filter for
cleaner color edges; and a dropout com-
pensator, which minimizes imperfections
on dirty or scratched discs. But a good
combi player should offer more than just
great pictures, so the MDP-455 com-
pletes the package with the same digital
audio circuitry used in Sony’s top-end
CD players.

JVC JX-300 A/V SELECTOR
Okay, you have a couple of VCRs, a
laserdisc player and a camcorder. You’d
like to make VHS copies of your 8mm
camcorder tapes, but you’ve already
seen them a hundred times, so you'd like
to watch something else while you dub.
To complicate matters, your expensive
new TV set has exactly one set of A/V
inputs. Outside of buying an expensive

32 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

Plug and Play:

RCA’s VR800HF 8mm
VCR and Straight
Wire's gold-plated cable.

A/V receiver to do all this fancy routing,
how do you get your components talking
to each other? JVC has the solution in
the JX-300, a very inexpensive periph-
eral that gives you flexibility and control
over four A/V sources. Featuring both
S-video and composite jacks across all
four inputs (nice), the JX-300 lets you
route signals of either type back and
forth to each other. A wireless remote
puts icing on the cake.

SHARP 4M-T30U LCD TV

Until recently, the phrase “portable
TV” was a bit of a misnomer, especially
if you wanted a color set. LCD technolo-
gy is changing all that, and Sharp’s new-
est model is the proof. Here’s a high-

resolution four-inch monitor with a
built-in VHF/UHF tuner, channel mem-
ory and auto presets, for TV wherever
you want it. The whole package is small
and light enough to fit in a briefcase or a
pocketbook, which makes it an excel-
lent travel companion for camcorder or
desktop video enthusiasts. This $599
TV set offers direct audio and video in-
puts. You can now keep an extra moni-

Tape Helpers:

The Videonics Video
Equalizer (left) and Vid-
iPax’s tape conversion
mailer.

tor in your camera bag, or edit your
tapes in places where a full-sized TV is
impractical. Images are exceptionally
bright, and rendered with a wide con-
trast ratio of more than 60:1.

Slim Shooter:
Canon’s UCS2 is thin,
light and packed with
shooting options.

CANON UCS2 Hi8 CAMCORDER

Canon can still take credit for hav-
ing the smallest Hi8 camcorder around.
The $1,699 UCS2 is its newest, and like
its predecessor the UCSI, there’s a lot of
power packed into this tiny handful.
Like what? How about three pro-
grammed exposure modes, AFM hi-fi
stereo sound, an 8x zoom, a seven-mode
high-speed shutter and a simplified
menu system that gets you to desired
functions quickly and intuitively?

That all this fits into a package
weighing less than a pound and a quar-
ter (sans battery) is remarkable enough.

But Canon has added some improve-
ments in this new design, most notably a
revamped chassis which puts the trigger
and. other important controls closer to
your fingers. Throw in a flying erase
head, wireless remote control and a Y/C
jack for input/output, and you’ve got a
potent, versatile machine that can fit in
a fanny pack.

PACKARD BELL
PBTV3 VIDEO CARD

You’ve been sitting at the computer
for hours. Never mind Lotus, you’re sud-
denly becoming interested in hemlock.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the
monitor for something really useful, like
Monday Night Football or Arsenio? Pack-
ard Bell has taken pity on you. The
PBTV3 priced under $300, is a Win-
dows-based card that lets your PC be-
come a TV. Simply install the card on
any AT-class computer with a VGA
monitor, and voila!

Desktop TV: Packard Bell's PBTV lets users receive
and capture TV images on personal computers.

DECEMBER 1992 VIDEO 33

A tuner module is incorporated for
VHE, UHF and cable channels, and the
card can also accept signals from a cam-
corder, VCR or laserdisc player. There's
also a built-in audio amplifier that can
power a set of headphones or a pair of
optional external speakers. Video images
can be frozen, captured, retrieved and
printed, making the PBT V3 useful for

multimedia productions.

RCA VR800HF 8mm VCR

Here’s an unusually useful gift for
the camcorder buff in your life: an 8mm
VCR. Forget about hooking the cam-
corder up to the back of the TV set or
your VHS deck. Forget about losing the
connection cable. Simply pop your
freshly shot footage into this baby and
enjoy. Videomakers will appreciate fea-
tures like a flying erase head, AFM hi-fi
stereo capability and a special edit mode
for optimized picture quality. But lest
you think the VR800HF, priced at $649,
is just for camcorder tapes, it’s also an
adept home VCR, with onscreen pro-
gramming, a universal remote control,
two-speed recording, a 181-channel tun-
er with MTS stereo and VCR Plus cir-
cuitry. Special effects like slow motion

| and double-speed play round out the of-

ferings, which are plentiful in this com-
pact package.

VIDEONICS VIDEO EQUALIZER

Here’s the Swiss Army knife of home
videography. For $349, the Video Equal-
izer offers a variety of digital processing
functions that can correct, colorize or
otherwise enhance your footage. Does
that important tape look too blue be-
cause you shot it under fluorescent
lights? No problem for the Equalizer —
just slide the tint controls until the col-
ots are right. Want to “paint” a portion
of the picture for special effects? Posi-
tion a crosshair over the object you want
to colorize and knock yourself out. A
split screen function lets you compare
altered footage to the original, and a dig-
ital noise-reduction circuit makes sure
signal loss is kept to a minimum. In addi-
tion to its video capabilities, the Equal-
izer has a three-channel audio mixer
and a microphone input.

STRAIGHT WIRE
ANV INTERCONNECTS

A chain is only as strong as its weak-
est link, and in all too many home thea-
ters a dinky cable is the difference
between a good picture and a superb
one. Straight Wire specializes in preci-

sion interconnects (A/V cables, for the
uninitiated) that are engineered for
maximum rejection of interference and
minimum signal loss. All the company’s
interconnects feature gold connection
points (in standard RCA or other plug
ends) and a low inductance signal path,
which translates into less distortion.
Both silver and oxygen-free copper are
used, and custom lengths are available.
Good cables won’t make your system
better, but they ensure that you get all
the performance you paid for. If you’re
thinking about upgrading one of your
components, maybe you should look
here first.

FOX 800 UNIVERSAL
REMOTE CONTROL

For most videophiles, a shelf filled
with remotes is a bit of a status symbol.
Still, it’s no fun to hassle with finding
the right remote when you need it, or
trying to skip to the next chapter on
your laserdisc only to find you’re press-
ing the VCR's remote. A good universal
unit is the answer, and the Fox 800 gets
special points for design, intelligent lay-
out and a reasonable $99 price.

You can control up to eight audio
video components, as a large backlit

MAKING A GREAT VIDEO

After using your camcorder the first time,
you realize that the built-in microphone

picks up sounds

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don’t want. And, when shooting from a distance, you can’t hear your subject's voice clearly. Azden, the leader in
quality audio for video, offers a full line of microphones to make your sound as good as your pictures.

This powerful professional
miniature VHF wireless system has
a range of over 300 feet. It allows
you to shoot from a distance and
pick up your subject's voice b
clearly. It has 2 switchable
frequencies, and it comes with 2
mics (handheld and clip-on). The

Mini directional
mic for palm-sized
camcorders. Sli

_ Full-size directional mic.

_ Headset with boom mic
___ Allows you to zoom in

for adding narration as
_you shoot. Your voice
beco e dominant
_ OF, use.

34 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

LCD screen changes the “button” dis-
play to match the component you want
to control. This keeps the front panel
simple and easy to see in the dark. In ad-
dition to supplying a library of program
codes for numerous devices, the Fox 800
can also learn codes from your own orig-
inal remotes. And if you still can’t get
the unit to work your equipment, you
can send the 800 in to Fox, and Fox will
download the appropriate codes for you.

AUDIOSOURCE HC-1
SURROUND-SOUND SYSTEM

One of the biggest complaints about
surround-sound systems is that they’re
difficult to assemble. While we don’t
necessarily agree, we do feel that Audio-
Source has come up with one of the
most complete solutions yet in the HC-1
system, priced at $1,299. Here’s an in-
stant surround-sound setup — simply
connect it to your existing stereo and
the HC-1 does the rest.

The system includes the company’s
SS Three/II Pro-Logic decoder, which
features 30 watts per channel (that can
be configured for the center and rear);
the Amp One power amplifier, which
powers the SW Three subwoofer; two
LS Ten rear-channel speakers and the
shielded VS-One center-channel speak-
er. The company even throws in 200
feet of speaker cable to make life simple.

VIDIPAX CONVERSION SERVICE

Our last suggestion is really a serv-
ice. Few gifts are more personal than a
homemade tape, but there’s no point in
sending one to friends or relations who
live in countries where NTSC isn’t the
local video language. The VidiPax mail-
er, available at photo and accessory
dealers for $39.95, entitles you to an
hour of converted video—from any TV
transmission standard (NTSC, PAL,
SECAM, etc.) to any other standard, in
the tape format (VHS, 8mm, etc.) of
your choice. Professional video conver-
sion services are costly and hard to find.
This one’s affordable and easy to find
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BY APRIL P. BERNARD

Holiday
viewin
that still
surprises.

t’s beginning to look a lot like Christ-

mas — in other words, 12 airings of It’s

a Wonderful Life, 11 A Christmas Car-

ols, 10 Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Rein-
deers... They’re the same tidings of
comfort and joy you've seen year after
year, and maybe through repetition
they’ve lost a little of the wonder and
magic of the season. So what are the al-
ternatives for a December evening’s en-
tertainment? How about a movie you
never thought of as a Christmas movie —
one whose novelty brings fresh holiday
inspiration? Here’s a seasonal guide to
classic and recent films that don’t need
two full hours of snow and Santa to sub-
due any Scrooge-like feelings.

One of the best is Billy Wilder’s The
Apartment (MGM/UA tape and letter-
boxed disc), a 1960 journey up the cor-
porate ladder that’s propelled by the
one-bedroom home of C.C. Baxter (Jack
Lemmon). One of 31,529 employees at
an insurance company, Baxter lands
promotions by lending his apartment to
executives for their dalliances— until
one of the “lady friends,” an elevator op-
erator (Shirley MacLaine) Baxter’s
sweet on, takes an overdose of pills there
on Christmas Eve.

The director, still on the same cre-
ative high that produced Some Like It
Hot, infuses what should be a tragedy
with a wonderful sense of hope. As Bax-
ter and the recovering Fran share a

Great Performances:

Along with “Have Your-

self a Merry Little
Christmas,” Judy Gar-

land sings “The Trolley

Song” in Meet Me in
St. Louis.

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Duck and Cover: Bonnie Bedelia and Bruce Willis
share a non-peaceful Christmas Eve in Die Hard.

Christmas dinner — spaghetti, bachelor-
strained through a tennis racket — the
underlying sense of a fresh start for both
is uplifting. And even though a wrench
is suddenly thrown into the works, by
New Year’s Eve, all’s well with the world.
A master director of today, Tim Bur-
ton (Batman Returns), lends his skewed
vision to a suburban holiday in Edward
Scissorhands (FoxVideo tape and disc).
Johnny Depp is the title character,
whose inventor died before he could
give his creation a Christmas present —
hands to replace the blades at the ends
of his wrists. Brought into “civilization”
y a well-meaning Avon lady, Edward is
at first courted; his imaginative clipped
hedges and cockeyed coiffures are all the

rage around the neighborhood.

On Christmas Eve, only minutes af-
ter an ecstatic moment—the Avon
lady’s daughter Kim (Winona Ryder) re-
vels in the shavings falling from the ice
sculpture Edward is fashioning — their
world falls apart. A misunderstanding
turns the narrow-minded neighbors
against him, and he returns to his exile.
At first glance a bitter conclusion, there
is a glimmer of optimism: Edward has
brought snow —something never seen
before —to this cold-hearted town. As
for Kim, as an elderly woman, she poig-
nantly confides, “Sometimes you can
still catch me dancing in it.”

If you want more dancing, try the
charming 1944 musical Meet Me in St.
Louis (MGM/UA tape and disc). A nos-
talgic look at an all-American family in
turn-of-the-century St. Louis, the Vin-
cente Minnelli film celebrates Christmas
Eve with a ball full of lavish gowns,
dance cards and courtly gentlemen.
“The Boy Next Door” proposes marriage
to young Esther Smith: (Judy Garland at
her most luminous), and before the eve-
ning is out sister Rose is engaged too.
Yet the highlight is Esther's “lullaby” —
“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christ-
mas” —to little sister Tootie (Margaret
O’Brien), fretful because the family will
soon uproot itself to New York City.
Christmas magic, however, is at work:
Even though Esther promises Tootie,

36 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

“We can be happy anywhere as long as
we're together,” Father reconsiders and
cancels the move. It’s a shining example
of pre-politicized “family values.”

For those with a less sentimental
streak, there’s holiday merriment to be
found in the action-adventure Die Hard
(FoxVideo tape and letterboxed disc).
After all, it’s Christmas Eve with the
Nakatomi Corporation’s office party in
full swing when thieves masquerading as
terrorists take over the building. New
York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis)
eludes the hostage-takers and manages
to off a few of the bad guys, prompting
him to send this greeting: “Now I have a
machine gun. Ho-ho-ho.” Our hero
even has a roll of gift-packaging tape to
thank for his ultimate victory! Not sur-
ptisingly, Die Hard’s soft side emerges at
the end: The ordeal reunites McClane
with his estranged wife (Bonnie Be-
delia), and as they cement their new-
found relationship, Vaughn Monroe’s

Winter Wonders:
Choices for a cold eve-
ning in front of the TV
set include (top to bot-
tom) Frank Capra’s
Meet John Doe, Tim
Burton's Edward Scis-
sorhands, the White
Christmas predecessor
Holiday Inn, and Jack
Lemmon and Fred
MacMurray in The
Apartment.

voice breaks in with a jubilant version of
“Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow.”
Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece The
Gold Rush (CBS/Fox tape, Voyager/
Killiam disc) promises a quieter eve-
ning’s viewing. In this 1925 silent, The.
Little Tramp braves the freezing tem-
peratures and hard life of the Yukon as a
prospector. The object of his affections,
a brash dance hall hostess (Georgia
Hale), agrees to bring her friends to a
New Year’s Eve dinner. Unaware she is
only feigning admiration as a joke,
Chaplin feverishly prepares for the big
event —shoveling snow to earn money
for holiday presents for his guests, fuss-
ing over a lavish dinner, decorating the
cabin right down to a pathetic little
continued on page 43

BY MARTIN BROCHSTEIN

ideogamers may feel like they’re in-

side a game themselves when they

go hunting for a system this season.

Never have so many products, me-
dia and configurations fought for their
hearts and minds. Be it eight-bit or 16-
bit, Sega or Nintendo, cartridges or
discs, one gamer’s conundrum is likely to
be another’s heaven. The holiday season
this year offers any number of ways to
play, most of which deliver entertain-
ment experiences only the most power-
ful mainframes could have created a few
short years ago.

The main gaming action is to be
found in the 16-bit arena, bearing in
mind that eight-bit systems by Ninten-
do, Sega and others are still available
and less costly, and that more advanced
32-bit systems are still at least a year
away. However, state-of-the-arters will
also get a chance this season to sample
CD-based gaming.

GAME

Stalking 92’s top
titles & action CDs.

Daring Duo: The new TurboDuo CD drive for the
TurboGrafx-16, the first game system to use CDs.

The two hottest games machines
right now are the Super Nintendo En-
tertainment System (SNES) and the
Sega Genesis. A third contender, the
TurboGrafx-16 system, is trying to keep
pace with the help of its new TurboDuo
that integrates a CD drive into the main
console. Both SNES and Sega feverishly
quote surveys and articles that “prove”
it has the winner. They’re also priced
about the same. In most areas, each can
be bought for $99 with a single control-

Winter Winners:
Olympic Gold (left) and
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
(top) for Genesis, and
Team USA Basketball
(above) for SNES.

HUNI

ler and no game cartridges.

Why buy one instead of the other?
The answer generally comes down to a
single factor: Who has the great games?
Sega expects to have more than 350
Genesis titles by Christmas, from itself
and nearly 40 other publishers. Ninten-
do says more than 125 SNES cartridges
will soon be on store shelves.

But it’s not just a matter of numbers,
or titles, since an increasing number of
game publishers are making cartridges
for both major systems. Each system will
have its own honor roll of hits. Here are
the key new titles to look for:

Two new SNES titles take the Mario
Brothers out of their normal environs. In
Super Mario Paint, Nintendo ventures
from pure game play into computer-style
play with an enjoyable drawing and mu-
sic program that’s controlled by an in-
cluded mouse. Mario Bros. characters
appear as icons to help children fill in
drawings or create their own, animate
sequences and compose music. The pro-
gram includes a fast fly-swatting game
designed to familiarize first-time mouse
users with rodent maneuvering.

Similarly, Super Mario Kart plops the
Mario characters into go-carts in a game
that can show split-screen racing from
two players and 360-degree perspectives
from the drivers. Look also for the SNES
version of an NCAA Basketball Game
that has the unique ability to constantly
shift the viewer's perspective so it’s al-
ways behind the player with the ball.

Acclaim Entertainment’s accent is
on licensed properties. Bart’s Nightmare
leverages the popularity of The Simpsons
TV show, while, under its LJN label, it
has Spiderman/X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge
with a host of Marvel Comics charac-
ters. Konami is also mining characters

38 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

Nintendo’s Newest: Super Mario Paint for SNES
enlists Mario icons to help users draw and animate.

from other media with Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles 4— Turtles in Time (and is
also publishing its first Turtles title for
Genesis). In a non-licensed mode, check
out Konami’s Axelay, an intergalactic
shoot-’em-up. Electronic Arts continues
to build its sports franchise by adding
Team USA Basketball to its Electronic
Arts Sports Network series.

For Genesis, Sega is putting most of
its oomph behind Sonic the Hedgehog 2 —
a much-anticipated sequel to last year’s
megahit. The new version is on an eight-
megabyte cart that delivers more speed,
twice as many boards and a cohort fox
with two tails. Sega is also publishing

actor.

TWO WAYS TO TARE THE MULTIMEDIA PLUNGE

A few years ago, the electronics buzzword of the day was
digital. Now it’s multimedia —as in the two leading mul-
timedia systems vying for a place in your expanding
home entertainment center. Each of the two systems —
Compact Disc-Interactive and Video Information Sys-
tem—will cost you about $600 and can be found in
many electronics and department stores. Each uses CD-
like discs to let you play games, learn how to do things
and access vast amounts of information.

Philips, CD-I’s originator and champion, has been
steadily expanding the format’s software library since it
came on the market a little more than a year ago, and
expanding its capabilities. In Escape From CyberCity, for
example, the player assumes the perspective of the hero
in an animated adventure, destroying demons as the sto-
ty moves forward. Another new disc, Mystic Midway: Rest
in Pieces, is a shooting gallery game that includes syn-
chronized introductions and commentary from a video

CD-I will add a new twist early next year with a
plug-in cartridge that lets it display full-screen, full-mo-
tion video. Future CD-I players will have the capability
built in. The cartridge is expected to come with some

it

Streets of Rage II, a follow-up to last
year’s popular action title, and expand-
ing its strength in sports titles with such
games as NFL Sportstalk Football 93 and
Evander Holyfield Real Deal Boxing.

On the third-party shelf for Genesis,
don’t overlook Tengen’s RBI-4 baseball
game, U.S. Gold’s Olympic Gold —Bar-
celona 92, Flying Edge’s Krusty’s Fun
House with Simpsons characters, and
Arena Entertainment’s Alien 3 and Ter-
minator 2.

The biggest buzz comes from CD-
based games, though the real CD gam-
ing revolution probably won’t kick in for
at least another year. Sega recently

Games on Disc: Sega's new CD
game drive (left) with screens from
two CD games, Joe Montana’s NFL
‘Football (above) and Night Trap,
which includes video segments.

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launched the $299 Sega CD in a few
USS. cities, although a version has been
on the market in Japan for several
months. At presstime, Sega expected to
have a few CD games on the market in
time for Christmas.

Nintendo, which earlier this year

continued on page 104

on CD-I.

software, including at least one music video, and cost
about $200. Though plans for using the video capability
haven’t been made public, many industry watchers as-
sume the company will eventually try to put feature films

VIS, which was developed by Tandy Corp. and Mi-
crosoft, can be purchased under either the Memorex or
Zenith brands. Like the CD-I player, a VIS console re-
sembles an upscale CD player with a slide-out tray. Many
of the first 100-plus VIS programs are similar to ones al-
ready developed for personal computers, and that’s no
accident. The VIS operating system is an offshoot of Mi-
crosoft’s popular Windows system, so software developers

find it relatively easy to
create versions of pro-
grams for both. The VIS
comes with an infrared
remote that resembles a
videogame controller
more than a TV remote,
plus a special version of
Compton's Multimedia En-
cyclopedia. —MB

DECEMBER 1992 VIDEO 39

BY BRENT BUTTERWORTH

HOME THEATER

The $200,000 Cello Music and Film
System may be the world’s best
home theater.

o Christmas list would be complete

without an impossible dream, a gift

you wish for but never dare expect.

For car buffs, it might be an original
Shelby Cobra. For baseball card collec-
tors, maybe a Honus Wagner. For hard-
core audio/video nuts like me, it’s the
Cello Music and Film System.

I could start by describing all the re-
ally cool hardware that makes up the
Cello system, or by breaking down its
breathtaking $200,000 price tag. But af-
ter an afternoon at a Cello showroom,
you no longer care what the Cello sys-
tem is. You fall in love with what it does.

We're watching the opening of the
Terminator 2 laserdisc. Every detail in
the skull-littered, apocalyptic landscape
stands out, without the flicker, scan
lines or rainbowed “chroma crawl” ef-
fects that mar NTSC pictures. Linda
Hamilton’s calm but troubled voice
sounds perfectly clear and fully imaged,
as if she were standing in front of us.
Cello vice president Franco Fellah

warns me, “Strap yourself in!” and I
smile politely, feeling jaded after seeing
this scene on several THX systems.

Suddenly, SLAM! The robot’s foot
crunches down, smashing a skull to bits,
and I yell and jump out of my chair. I
know exactly when the crash will occur,
but I’m not prepared for the effects of
the Cello system’s 127-decibel dynamic
range. It sounds like an 18-wheeler
dropped through the ceiling.

We skip to the first encounter be-
tween the two Terminators, amazed that
when Arnold gets thrown through a
glass wall, it doesn’t sound close to real,
it sounds absolutely real. I had no idea la-
serdisc digital audio was capable of such
high performance. Home THX systems
sound almost like movie theater sys-
tems. But the Cello system doesn’t — it
sounds better than a movie theater!

We switch to Andres Segovia: The
Song of the Guitar, a laserdisc documen-
tary on the life and music of the father of
classical guitar. Every nuance of Sego-

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As Good as It Gets:
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Mark Levinson demon-
strates the Audio
Palette equalizer. (Cen-
ter) A Cello system
rack packed with state-
of-the-art Cello, Faroud-

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costly discrete circuitry
that makes the Audio
Palette so effective.

40 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

PHOTOS: MAHDAVIAN

‘| The Big Picture: The Cello Music and Film System includes a Stewart Filmscreen, towering Stradivarius Grand speakers and an Ampro Esprit 4000 projector.

via’s delicate playing comes through.
The sound is better than with any
tweaked-up audiophile system I can re-
member. You can hear Segovia’s left
hand move across the guitar neck, and
the notes emanating from the sound
hole slightly to the left. The speakers
seem to vanish — it’s just you, Segovia
and the scenic countryside of his An-
dalusian home.

That’s the magic of the Cello Music
and Film System. Put on any program
material — CDs from Nirvana to Bartok,

laserdiscs from Robocop to Casablanca —
and you get the full emotional impact.
The end is all-important; the means dis-
appear.

It may seem strange to spend hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars on equip-
ment designed to be ignored, but as
Cello founder Mark Levinson puts it,
“People who buy Cello are interested in
soul, not technology. With Cello, you
forget about video, you forget about au-
dio, and you start experiencing music
and film. You get this incredible emo-

tional rush.”

Levinson began Cello after years of
running Mark Levinson Ltd., a high-end
audio company that built its reputation
by building some of the world’s best
amps and preamps. Instead of simply
manufacturing a new hardware line,
though, Levinson decided to create no-
compromise systems that would allow
audio/videophiles to concentrate on
program content instead of equipment.
This focus on musical and visual con-
tent stems both from Levinson’s years as

DECEMBER 1992 VIDEO 41

a jazz bassist and trumpeter, playing with
such greats as Sonny Rollins and Paul
Bley, and his longtime involvement in
music and film production.

Cello customers get a personal audi-
tion in Cello’s Manhattan or Los An-
geles showroom; system specifications
drawn to their needs by Levinson or his
Los Angeles counterpart, Joe Cali; and
professional installation tailored to their
homes. The state-of-the-art perfor-
mance of Cello gear largely eliminates

the need for future upgrades.

Several Cello systems are available,
from $24,000 audio-only systems to the
complete Music and Film System, devel-
oped in conjunction with Audio/Video
Interiors, a Millburn, New Jersey, cus-
tom installation firm. The system we au-
ditioned includes a Pioneer CLD-95
combi player, which feeds a $15,000 Fa-
roudja line doubler that doubles the ap-
parent vertical resolution of the picture.

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travels to an Ampro Esprit 4000 graph-
ics-grade projector, capable of an 81-ki-
lohertz scan rate (compared to 15.75
kHz for NTSC). After seeing the Fa-
roudja work in several systems, I
thought it was perfect, but the Ampro
projector is so good, it reveals even the
Faroudja’s few flaws.

Senior editor Ken Korman and I
agree — the combination of the Faroudja
and the Ampro Esprit 4000 produces
the best big-screen picture we've seen
from an NTSC laserdisc. The filmlike
detail and stability of the picture are just
amazing, even on the screen Levinson
uses, which is almost as large as those in
small multiplex movie theaters.

The sound system uses two 500-
pound Stradivarius Grand speakers
(each with 18 separate drivers), two Per-
formance amplifiers (each rated at 6,000
watts of power), an Audio Palette, an
Audio Suite preamp and two Strad Pre-
miere speakers in the rear, each powered
by a 50-watt mono amp. The Toslink
digital output of the Pioneer CLD-95
feeds a modified Theta DS Pro Genera-
tion III digital-to-analog converter. A
Lexicon CP-3 surround-sound decoder
separates the rear-channel sound using a
surround program designed for Cello by
Lexicon.

The real stroke of genius is the Au-
dio Palette equalizer. Levinson created
the $16,000 Audio Palette (and its
brother, the $6,500 Palette Preamp) to
correct for the imbalances found in
many recordings due to the lack of
standardization among professional au-
dio monitoring systems. In other words,
a recording mixed on a bright-sounding
system may sound dull on most other
systems. With six bands of super-clean
equalization, the Audio Palette lets a
user adjust for these tonal imbalances
without degrading the sound as most
equalizers do. For easy access, it sits on a
stand in front of the listener.

Levinson demonstrated the Audio
Palette’s capabilities on everything from
action movies to Ella Fitzgerald, switch-
ing in and out to let us hear the differ-
ence. In every case, we felt the Audio
Palette made the unequalized sound al-
most unlistenable in comparison.

The results of Levinson’s efforts are
so far beyond what we’ve come to ex-
pect from home entertainment, it sad-
dens us that more people can’t exper-
ience them. Levinson is enthusiastic
about the idea of working with consum-
er electronics companies to make afford-
able, high-quality systems, but has no
firm plans to do so. However, you'll soon
be able to experience a taste of the Cello
magic for the price of a laserdisc — Image
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continued from page 37

Christmas tree. The women never show.
But the pathos in Chaplin’s work rarely
lasts: Soon the tramp and his partner
strike gold, and as they journey to
America, he receives his gift— one stow-
away, a lovestruck dance hall hostess
named Georgia.

Another case of sorrow transformed
into joy occurs in Auntie Mame (Warner
tape and letterboxed disc), the sparkling
1958 comedy chronicling the relation-
ship between young Patrick and his
flamboyant aunt, Mame Dennis (Oscar-
nominated Rosalind Russell). As Time
heralded, it’s got “Roz-zamatazz!” An
eccentric socialite whose motto is “live,
live, live,” Mame becomes a victim of
the stock market crash—and is poor,
poor, poor. She takes a job selling roller
skates at Macy’s, but, ill-equipped to
handle the holiday hustle and bustle (or
any sale that isn’t C.O.D.), gets sacked.
Once home, she decides an early Christ-
mas celebration will raise spirits and, in
an especially touching moment, finds
that her loyal servants have paid some
long-overdue bills. Then, to cap off this
day of unexpected happiness, Beau-
regarde Jackson Pickett Burnside (For-
test Tucker), a Macy’s customer with a
twinkle in his eye and a plantation in
Georgia, arrives to sweep Mame off her
feet.

And sweep It’s a Wonderful Life aside
for Frank Capra’s other Christmas sui-
cide picture, 1941's Meet John Doe (pub-
lic-domain tape, LVA Film Classics
disc). When an enterprising reporter
(Barbara Stanwyck) finds her job in
peril, she concocts a letter from “John
Doe,” who threatens to jump from the
roof of city hall at midnight on Christ-
mas Eve to protest the state of civiliza-
tion. The public latches onto the story,
so she hires a down-on-his-luck baseball
player (Gary Cooper) to play the part —
and he is John Doe, idealistic and hon-
est, spurring just-plain-folks to form
John Doe Clubs and help their neigh-
bors. But big business and politics sour
the John Doe movement, and Christmas
Eve finds a tiny assortment of people
waiting for John on the roof of city hall.
The final scene—one of at least seven
Capra toyed with—is emotional, heart-
felt and inspiring.

A gayer touch comes from Holiday
Inn (MCA/Universal tape and disc), the
1942 musical that won an Oscar for Irv-
ing Berlin’s holiday staple ‘““White
Christmas.” On Christmas Eve, the

song-and-dance team of Hanover &
Hardy go their separate ways — Hardy
(Bing Crosby) to Connecticut to launch
an inn open only on holidays, Hanover
(Fred Astaire) to a new show, with his
ex-partner’s fiancee in tow. Hardy gets a
new partner and fiancee (Marjorie Rey-
nolds), then Hanover comes sniffing
around... It’s a lightweight story, but the
Berlin tunes are a delight — and the final
clinch comes, of course, as Christmas
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Enlargement of an
LCD panel with thin-
film transistors.

BY GEORGE MANNES

Monochrome Giant:
Flat plasma screen by
Photonics Systems

measures 60 inches di-

agonally, making it the
world’s largest high-
resolution, dot-matrix
display.

oe

The $1 billion race to invent
see most elusive product—
g, thin, hang-on-the-wall TV.

sions, futurists
5 dreamed of a

large TV set flat
enough to hang on a
wall, just like the
one Arnold Schwar-
zenegger enjoyed in
Total Recall. But in
the real world, the
large, flat TV has al-
ways remained an
enticing prize just out of reach, the vid-
eo industry's version of a holy grail. In
1970, for example, Show Magazine pre-
dicted flat, wall-sized TV sets would ar-
tive by 1978 “at the latest.” But that’s
recent history. In 1950, when Video Mag-
azine contributing editor David Lach-
enbruch joined the industry newsletter
Television Digest, one of his first assign-
ments was to look into the possibility of
flat television. “I concluded it was 10
years off,” he recalls. “That has stood up
very well with time, because it’s always
been 10 years off.”

It probably still is a decade away. But
the race has never been more furious,
nor the promise more compelling. The
market for flat screens has never looked
larger — $16 billion by 1997, according to
one estimate — and more companies
than ever are pursuing ingenious new
approaches. The boom in computers,
the growing needs of the U.S. military
and the advent of HDTV have all

ven before peo-
ple had televi-

helped to fuel a surge in advanced re- | with the bigger companies, in particular

search. In recent years, companies here
and in Japan have poured more than $1
billion into the effort to perfect flat-
screen technologies, and the spigot is
still open.

The money has not been wasted. Al-
though large color displays remain tan-
talizingly elusive, companies are drama-
tically improving the quality of small
color screens and large monochromatic
screens. And significant developments
continue to be announced. For example,
Casio recently said it has developed a
new kind of LCD using a plastic film
only half a millimeter thick, setting a
new standard for thinness and lightness.
It predicts the new LCD, now mono-
chromatic, will be able to handle color
in a few years and may make it possible
to create TV sets with folding screens.

Giants like Casio, Sharp and Canon
are being challenged by smaller, feisty
competitors. Firms like Photonics Sys-
tems and Coloray Display, both based in,
the U.S., are pushing unconventional
technologies to the limit in the search
for better, bigger, less costly displays.
Government-supported entities are also
deeply involved. In Japan, NHK, the
country’s public broadcasting organiza-
tion, conducts its own research, while
here in the U.S., the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
has spent $150 million just in the past
four years to support flat-screen re-
search.

Where do we stand? The story starts

44 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

Magnified color TV
LCD panel shows red,
green and blue pixels.

Pixelated:

In a thin-film transistor
LCD display (below),
voltages applied to tiny
transistors turn liquid
crystals on or off, illu-
minating red, green and
blue pixels, which form
video images.

Sharp, which has tied its fortunes to
what is regarded as the leading technol-
ogy in the race toward a hang-on-the-
wall TV set. The technology is based on
the thin-film transistor, active-matrix
liquid-crystal diode, and Sharp is its
leading proponent. The company has
spent a bundle, earmarking more than
$700 million in a program begun in 1990
to perfect large, color displays.

Like all color TV displays, thin-film
LCDs do not transmit seamless pictures.
They display arrays of red, green and
blue dots that merge into continuous
colors and shapes when viewed from a
distance. To visualize how such a picture
works, imagine a single dot on an insu-
lating window, the kind with two panes
of glass separated by a space. The panes
of glass are polarized at right angles to
each other but, instead of air between
the panes, the space is filled by a twisted
liquid crystal.

A basic, white light radiates behind
the glass, which the liquid crystal trans-
mits to the viewer in a color that corre-
sponds to that of the dot. If voltage is
applied, the crystal straightens and the

Glass
Color Filter
Common
Electrode
Liquid Crystal

Thin-Film
Transistor

Glass

Inching Upward:
Prototype 16.5-inch flat
color display by Sharp,
nearly twice as large as
the biggest model the

company sells.

cell darkens. Install thousands of such
pixels on a video screen, manipulate
them in thirtieth-of-a-second incre-
ments and you can create a TV picture.

Today, the biggest flat-panel TV
Sharp sells in the U.S. using this tech-
nology is a wall-hanging 8.6-inch model,
complete with designer frame, at a price
of $4,795. However, Sharp recently dis-
played a color screen for computers with
a flat 16.5-inch display, and it has devel-
oped an innovative line of LCD video
projectors.

But if these results seem disappoint-
ing given the size of Sharp's investment,
it's important to understand the extraor-
dinary difficulties thin-film LCDs pre-
sent. “A high-resolution LCD can have
up to six million transistors and miles of
circuitry,” explains DARPA program
manager Marko M.G. Slusarczuk. If
there’s even.a slight defect, “it’s going to
wreak havoc with picture quality,” he
explains. “You have to have a manufac-
turing process that’s nominally perfect.”

CAUTION: LOW YIELDS

The problem described by Slu-
sarczuk is known in the industry as yield.
The extreme difficulty of producing a
pixel-perfect screen is one of the most
formidable stumbling blocks to large,
affordable, thin-film LCD TVs. Al-
though exact numbers are closely guard-
ed trade secrets, it’s believed that two-
thirds of the larger thin-film LCD
screens now produced don’t meet their
makers’ tough quality standards. Yields
as low as 33 percent effectively mean
that most units have to be discarded.

To get around the yield problem,
Commercial Research Laboratories, a
subsidiary of Thorn EMI, the British
electronics and entertainment conglom-
erate, has spent nearly a decade devel-
oping a ferroelectric LCD, a type of
LCD that doesn’t need an onscreen
transistor. The “horrific” yield losses
other companies expetience reflect the
difficulty of manufacturing the millions
of perfect transistors large screens re-
quire, explains Dr. Ashok Vaidya, CRL’s
commercial manager.

CRL’s approach simply bypasses a
key stumbling block. To operate a com-
plex LCD display, it’s important for each
pixel to have a memory. In thin-film
LCD displays, transistors serve as the
memory. But CRL has developed a liq-
uid crystal that has its own memory,
meaning it doesn’t need a transistor to
remain stable when it is either transmit-
ting light or blocking light, the two
states transistors usually exhibit.

The ferroelectric LCD’s structure

DECEMBER 1992 VIDEO 45

LCD panel, magnified,
of the type in Sharp
LCD projectors.

4 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

Supporting Pillar

Transparent
Conductor

Microtip

Emitter

Emission Control:
Cross-section of a field-
emission display shows
dozens of tiny electron
emitters positioned be-
hind each phosphor
dot. If even a few emit-
ters fail, plenty more
are available to keep
each phosphor glowing,
creating, say its propo-
nents, a more reliable
flat display.

_

Phosphor Dots

Glass

Faceplate Black Matrix

Base Plate

also makes it much easier to manufac-
ture than thin-film LCDs, says Vaidya.
The problem is that ferroelectric LCDs
cannot transmit the fine shades of gray
between black and white that are essen-
tial for lifelike colors. In the meantime,
the lab has demonstrated a 10.4-inch
color computer display using ferro-
electric LCDs, and licensed the technol-
ogy to an unnamed Japanese manufac-
turer.

In addition, Canon, which is also in-
vestigating ferroelectric LCDs, has built
a 15-inch, high-resolution color proto-
type and is reportedly planning models
40 inches and larger that are designed
for digital TV systems. Next year, Canon
plans to begin producing 24-inch color
screens suitable for computers.

Canon's breakthroughs, according to
a report in Television Digest, include a
technique that eliminates the need for a
thin-film transistor for every pixel, and a
system that introduces color and gray
scales to ferroelectric LCDs, which are
typically either on or off. The system
uses four filters—red, green, blue and
white — for each pixel.

LIT FROM WITHIN

Both thin-film and ferroelectric
LCDs are transmissive technologies.
They don’t create the light in the TV
display —they modulate the amount of

Plasma Power:
Screen shots from a
19-inch flat plasma dis-
play by Photonics
Systems show rich col-
ors and fine detail. The
company expects to
have a 40-inch flat
HDTV display within
two years.

light that travels through. But other
promising flat-panel technologies use an
emissive principle. Like conventional
TV tubes, they generate the light that
makes the picture.

A leading technology using this ap-
proach is the field-emission display,
which is an interesting variation on the
cathode-ray tube that lies at the heart of
conventional TV sets. Like a CRT, a
field-emission display creates a picture
by shooting electrons at a phosphor-cov-
ered faceplate. When each red, green or
blue phosphor is hit, it glows. A CRT
generates the electrons it needs from a
heated element inside a single long-
necked electron gun at the rear of the
tube. But in a field-emission display, the
electrons are generated at room tem-
perature from millions of minute emit-
ters lining the rear of the flat-screen TV.

The emitters act like CRTs and look
like Hershey’s Kisses, says Bob Young,
director of operations for Coloray Dis-
play Corp., a leading developer of field-
emission displays. Only 1 micron high
and 1 micron wide at their bases, the
emitters are so tiny that 10,000 can be
packed into a square millimeter of space.
This makes it possible to aim about 100
emitters, which end in microtips, at
each pixel on the screen’s surface. “Typ-
ically, if you have one short circuit, it
kills the whole pixel,” explains Young.
“But we can lose 10 to 20 percent of
those tips and never know the differ-
ence. The redundancy is very high.”

The largest field-emission display yet
demonstrated is only a six-inch color
unit constructed by Leti, a French com-
pany. The obstacle to bigger displays, ac-
cording to Young, is that today’s
semiconductor equipment is not large
enough to build large panels full of mi-
crotips. As a result, Coloray is exploring
other ways to lay down microtips.

Faced with the same hurdle, a re-
search cooperative called the Micro-
electronics and Computer Technology
Corp. is investigating other ways to gen-
erate field emissions. Its idea is to make
the emitter out of thin film, not micro-
tips, explains project director Elliott
Schlam. Using these films, “we can

Liquid crystals for
LCD screens, as seen
by a microscope.

LIGHT VALVES & MIRRORS

While large flat panels could cut the TV set down to a
fraction of its present bulk, advances in the small flat
panels used in video projectors could prove equally revo-
lutionary. Most video buffs are already familiar with LCD
projectors, thanks largely to the innovative sets devel-
oped by Sharp. But industry watchers are keeping an eye
on two approaches using light valves and mirrors.

The former is critical to a new joint effort by JVC
and Hughes Aircraft to develop a liquid-crystal light
valve (LCLV) projector for consumers. The goal is a set
that will project high-quality, ultrabright images up to 30
feet wide, even under normal room light. Like conven-
tional video projectors, the LCLV version would start
with light generated by three cathode-ray tubes, one for
each primary color. But instead of projecting the light, it
would display the tubes’ images on the photosensitive
side of a liquid-crystal film sandwiched between two lay-
ers of glass. Light from a powerful xenon arc lamp would
pass through the liquid crystal, bounce off the mirrored
side of the sandwich and reflect back out for viewing.

A more advanced version plans to use a single slice
of pure silicon crystal for the sandwich. It would help the
light valve work so fast that only one CRT would be
needed. The projector is expected to have 10 times the
brightness of conventional LCD models, according to Dr.
Bill Bleha, vice president of engineering at the joint ven-
ture. Bleha says it will produce a sharper picture because
the liquid-crystal film is continuous, not divided into res-
olution-limiting pixels.

Hughes originally developed LCLV projectors in the
70s for the military, and present models cost from
$50,000 to $500,000. JVC hopes to introduce the con-
sumer version in 1994, for between $2,000 and $7,000.

Meanwhile, Aura Systems, a California company
based in El Segundo, is trying to do it with mirrors. Aura
is developing front- and rear-projection TV sets using a
technology it calls actuated mirror array. Separate sets of
mirrors transmit red, green and blue light to the pixels.
Each pixel of the display corresponds to one. specific mi-
cromirror. The angle at which each mirror reflects its
light source determines the brightness of the pixel.

TV sets made this way should be brighter and have
wider viewing angles than today’s rear-projection sets, ac-
cording to Larry Shultz, president of Aura Distribution
Systems, an Aura subsidiary. Shultz adds that Aura is
working with Korea’s Daewoo Electronics to develop an
NTSC prototype in about 18 months. The companies
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manufacture with fairly inexpensive
equipment,” says Schlam and, in princi-
ple, “scale it up to very large areas.”
Schlam expects the company to com-
plete its first working display within the
next two or three years.

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There are some large, flat prototypes
around. Among the flashiest is a 40-inch
screen, only three inches thick, dis-
played earlier this year by NHK. It works
by using another type of flat-panel tech-
nology known as plasma or gas-dis-
charge display. NHK believes plasma
displays can be turned into commercial
products by 1997, and offer the only real
way to create large (40 to 60 inches) flat
screens suitable for HDTV.

NHK developed the screen, which
uses a direct-current system, with Mat-
sushita, NEC, Dai Nippon Printing and
Oki Electric Industry. Another Japanese
company, Fujitsu, is working on a gas
plasma screen using alternating current.
Fujitsu says it has already developed a
display that can run for 10,000 hours,
about the life of a conventional TV
tube.

Plasma displays are also being devel-
oped in the U.S., chiefly by Photonics
Systems of Northwood, Ohio. Photonics
has sold 60-inch monochromatic plasma
displays for about $150,000 and demon-
strated a 19-inch, full-color VGA ver-
sion. Its goal is to market an HDTV
display at least 40 inches large, diag-
onally. “Within two years, we’ll have it,”
promises Don Wedding, a Photonics
consultant.

To create a plasma display, a layer of
neon or a related gas is sandwiched be-
tween the clear screen of the monitor
and a back panel. An electric current
sent to each pixel causes the gas at the
pixel to discharge and glow. To make a
color plasma display, the inside of the
screen is coated with red, green and blue
phosphors, according to Wedding. Using
the same principle as a fluorescent light
bulb, the gas emits ultraviolet light that
causes the phosphors to glow.

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Each technology has advantages and in-
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magic-bullet solution that does all
things,” says Bob Pressley, president of
Silicon Video, a California company re-
searching flat displays for DARPA. “Any
of these technologies can still emerge as
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cost of establishing a large-scale electro-
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Canon is reportedly investing more than
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lion to bring thin-film displays to their
present dominant position. ‘‘The
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“Anyone who comes up with a cost-ef-
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hat Is Home Theater?
asked the big sign over the
entrance to the demon-
“stration room on the sec-
ond floor of the Tweeter, etc. store
in Framingham, Massachusetts. A
good question, I thought, since I
had embarked on an expedition to
purchase a big-screen projection
television, considered by many to
be the centerpiece of the home
theater experience.

Projection has been a growth
area for the consumer electronics
industry ever since sales of smaller
TV sets and VCRs leveled off in
the 1980s. Advances in projection
technology, combined with design
innovations and a heightened in-
terest in all things “home thea-
ter,” have spurred both retail
promotions and sales. It also had me
wondering what a typical consumer
would find walking in cold to a store,
looking to make an informed big-screen
choice.

My experience proved anew that re-
gardless of technology’s advances, caveat
emptor, or buyer be cautious, is still the
best advice before heading out. Over the
course of several weeks of shopping at a
variety of stores in the Northeast — from
electronic specialty shops to warehouse-
size volume outlets — we heard sales ad-
vice that ranged from reasoned and ex-
pert to disinformation worthy of the
KGB.

Wacky definitions of home theater
tripped easily from the tongues of engag-
ing salespeople, particularly at high-vol-

BY JAMES M. BARRY

TRADE

One shopper's odyssey,
through a jungle of sets
& thickets of salespeak,
to discover his ideal TV.

ume dealers. “Home theater is for RCA
like Trinitron is for Sony,” explained one
salesman at Tops Mega Warehouse and
Showroom in Secaucus, New Jersey. I
had asked about the “Home Theater”
designation on the face of a 35-inch
RCA direct-view set he was earnestly
trying to sell me in lieu of the projection
sets I came to ask about.

I hadn’t been in the cavernous Tops
showroom a minute when one of the
store’s legion of salesmen approached to
ask what had brought me there that day.
I mentioned the ad I had seen for pro-
jection sets in the morning’s newspaper.
“Over 85 big-screens displayed,” includ-
ing a “Panasonic 40” for $1,096, trum-
peted the copy.

I had no reason to doubt Tops’ claim

ADVENTURES IN THE

that the store had “N.J.’s largest
selection of color TVs” — along
with hundreds of VCRs, camcord-
ers, stereos, boom boxes, refrigera-
tors, freezers, microwave ovens
and kitchen ranges. It was indeed
a mega showroom, one of four the
company operates in New Jersey.
In television alone, Tops displayed
all the major brands, including
some — like RCA’s ProScan — that
are theoretically to be found solely
in high-end specialty shops. (And
with good reason, since the Tops
salesman could tell me nothing
about the differences between
RCA and ProScan, aside from not-
ing some design elements.)

Tops’ high-impact, low-price
approach is designed to get cus-
tomers into the store in this reces-
sionary era. The fine print accom-
panying its ads often points out that ad-
vertised sets are one-of-a-kind display
models. But Tops also offers a $100 re-
ward if a customer can get a better price,
which is its version of the now routine
“lowest-price” policy prevalent in clec-
tronics retailing.

Tops is one of the most visible exam-
ples of an electronics retail community
in the process of a dramatic restructur-
ing. Traditional mass merchandisers,
catalog showrooms, mail-order firms —
even warehouse clubs that display prod-
ucts stacked in boxes—are vying with
“power retailers” that were once high-
volume dealers but that are now trying
to become customer-service-oriented
with the help of more knowledgeable

50 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

ROB WESTERBERG

sales staffs. This is a hard transition to
make as attested to by the number of
bankruptcies and retrenchments that
have characterized the retail landscape
over the past 18 months.

According to HFD, a newspaper for
the retailing industry, electronics and
appliance retailers’ share of the market
has dipped since 1988 from 47 percent to
less than 43 percent. At the same time,
the share claimed by warehouse clubs
has risen to 7 percent.

It was into this cutthroat retail jun-
gle we set out in search of big-screen
knowledge.

NAILED TO THE FLOOR

The set advertised for $1,096 was
tucked into a corner anchoring a row of
two dozen projection sets on a balcony
overlooking Tops’ huge display floor.
The set was a 90s example of the classic
“naildown,” retail parlance for a product
advertised at a dramatically low price,
but figuratively nailed to the floor so
that no customer can buy it.

I could have purchased the set if I
had insisted, but since it was difficult
even to get a clear viewing angle at an
appropriate distance in front of the set, I
wouldn’t have wanted to. Nor would
any other customer be likely to prefer
this set-to the 46-inch RCA and Sony
sets lined up right next to it. These sets,
with brighter, better adjusted pictures,
cost $1,999 and $2,249 respectively.

Furthermore, the salesman contin-
ued to tout Tops’ 35-inch direct-view
sets over projection unless I was going to
go 46 inches or larger, not because of
any concern for the size of the screen in
relation to the room I would be putting

it in, but because tubes just “have a bet-
ter picture.”

In New England, I had seen the’
same Panasonic model advertised a
week previously for $1,299 in a Lech-
mere newspaper supplement. Until
then, this was the lowest advertised
price I'd seen for a projection set. Lech-
mere has been the power retailer for ap-
pliances and electronics in New England
for three generations, shifting with the
market, accommodating new products
and —as new competitors entered its
territory — systematically drubbing all
comers.

There were 10 projection sets on dis-
play in the electronics department at the
Lechmere store in Framingham, Massa-
chusetts, one of 23 the company oper-
ates in the Northeast. I trekked out
there a week earlier after spotting a 41-
inch Magnavox set advertised for
$1,499. This too was a TV the salesman
wasn’t very enthusiastic about selling,
pointing out it was there simply because
“our buyer wanted to hit this price
point.” During a second visit, a different
salesman said the low price was because
Magnavox manufactures the sets here in
the U.S., thus keeping freight costs low.
True, but perhaps the first answer told
more of the story.

Both salesmen were much mote in-
terested in selling me one of the Mit-
subishi sets that were arrayed in a row
next to the advertised special, leading
me to suspect these sets carried a sales-
man’s “spiff ”—the term for a cash bo-
nus intended to encourage the folks on
the sales floor to move certain products.

Lechmere also had a separate room
set up as a home theater with a Mit-

subishi big-screen TV and a selection of
laserdisc players, audio/video receivers
and speakers. The salesman there told
me that if I wanted a home theater I
should have a big-screen TV, an A/V re-
ceiver with Dolby Pro-Logic and a laser-
disc player.

BRAND PATROL

In Natick, Massachusetts, I visited
Sears Brand Central where I was able to
compare pictures on eight of the nine
projection sets aligned at one side of the
department. A few years back Sears be-
gan selling branded merchandise, so
now I found big screens from Magnavox,
RCA, Hitachi and Sony in addition to
Sears’ own LXI.

When a salesman finally ap-
proached, he responded to an open-end-
ed question— “Tell me about these
projection sets” — with a pitch for the
LXI, that was “the same as the RCA
(they make it for us), but a few hundred
dollars less.”

As I expected, I had a very different
experience at the electronics specialty
stores I shopped. Typically, these shops
maintain that they have knowledgeable
staffers who will sell a customer the right
equipment for his or her needs, empha-
sizing value rather than merely price.
My experience bore out these claims.

At Harvey’s Electronics in Paramus,
New Jersey, one of seven stores the com-
pany operates in the New York metro-
politan area, I was greeted upon
entering by a pleasant young man who
asked if there was any specific area I was
interested in.

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along with his business card and urged
me to come back to talk some more. It
was only in the specialty stores that I
was offered literature of any kind along
with informed answers.

ANSWERED PRAYERS

“So what’s the answer to the ques-
tion,” I asked the Tweeter salesman who
approached to inquire if I was being
helped. “ ‘What is home theater?’ ” I
had been allowed to browse the store
unpressured for a full five minutes on a
quiet Sunday afternoon with only a
handful of other customers present.

“Dolby Pro-Logic,” came his imme-
diate reply. “In order to recreate the the-
ater experience at home, you really need
it.” He then proceeded through a brief,
but detailed explanation of Dolby Pro-
Logic, THX and other surround systems,
before asking if there was a specific prod-
uct I was interested in.

When I told him projection televi-
sion, he asked what type of programs |
watched and what size and type of room
I planned to put the set in. He also
asked what other equipment I owned
and what other new components I might
be considering. He suggested I might be
better served with a 35-inch direct-view
set, although he was willing to discuss
the relative advantages of the two ap-
proaches, pointing out that recent ad-
vances had greatly improved projection
sets.

Tweeter carried only Mitsubishi,
Sony and Toshiba direct-view televi-
sions, and Mitsubishi, Sony and Pioneer
projection sets. It displayed three projec-
tion sets, side by side, from each manu-
facturer, along with a home theater
setup using a Mitsubishi set. The sales-
man was friendly, informative and will-
ing to spend a little time talking about
AW receivers, laserdiscs, lines of resolu-
tion, brightness versus color, HDTV
(“three years away”) and prices (“we’re
competitive”).

Here too, there was literature avail-
able and a request to come back. I left
feeling this is the type of place where |
would feel confident buying a projection
set. I’d get accurate information about
the products. I'd learn about genuine
differences between brands and models,
and I would be able to make an in-
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money.

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Shop for the store as well as the product.
Check the ads, explore local outlets,
read the brochures. Most of all, take the
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Howard Ashman’ last full score togeth-
er, as Ashman died of AIDS last year.
“We don’t like what we do not under-
stand; in fact, it scares us,” the towns-
people cry as they set off, like Franken-
stein’s lynch mob, to kill the Beast. The
basic moral in Beauty and the Beast — em-
pathy for those different from our-
selves—resounds on levels The Little
Mermaid never aspired to.

This Beauty, named Belle, is older
and wiser than the impetuous mermaid
who took dangerous risks to win her
prince’s love. Belle’s bravery and com-
passion in choosing to live with —and
learning to love —a deformed prince are
more compelling because she under-
stands the consequences of her actions.

Well-read and self-sufficient, Belle is an
inspiring Disney heroine.

The film toys with male stereotypes,
too. Belle’s suitor, the vain and chauvin-
istic Gaston, is debunked in a song that
is tears-in-your-popcorn funny. The
Beast is a complicated soul with a vio-
lent temper who learns tenderness un-
der Belle’s tutelage.

Watching two misunderstood souls
form a bond of equality and respect in
Jean Cocteau’s 1946 live-action Beauty is
still a delight. Now we can enjoy the sto-
ry again with a witty score, sweet comic
turns and the visual punch of master an-
imation.

Oh yeah, and it’s a great movie for
kids, too. —Marianne Meyer

Alien?

1992. Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dut-
ton; dir. David Fincher. Hi-fi surround. (R)
115 min. $94.98. FoxVideo.

A horror film in the most literal
sense, Alien? rides a tidal wave of desper-
ation that makes its predecessors seem
like light entertainment. Although the
formula — unholy monster stalking hu-
man prey—remains the same, director
David Fincher has created an unsettling
world few would want to emulate. Be-
fore, the sparring between the creature
and unsinkable Lieutenant Ripley
(Sigourney Weaver) was exhilarating;
kere, a bleak fatalism renders the out-
come almost irrelevant. No wonder this
downer didn’t ignite the box office.

Crash-landing on a desolate planet,
Ripley finds herself in dire straits from
the start. Her refuge is a prison colony
populated by violent criminals, none of
whom has seen a woman in years, with
only Doctor Clemens (Charles Dance)
and preacher Dillon (Charles S. Dut-
ton) serving as allies. So dreary is this
lonely outpost that the appearance of
the alien amounts to an anticlimax.

Nothing works at the drab, rust-en-

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crusted base, suggesting survival may be
the lesser option, a heavy message rein-
forced by a disturbing AIDS metaphor.
First-time director Fincher doesn’t al-
ways keep the plot in synch with his in-
triguing vision: The pacing flags, while a
climactic chase resorts to conventional
search-and-destroy theatrics. Still,
Alien? should be required viewing for
connoisseurs of existential angst, though
thrill-seekers may feel cheated.

—Jon Young

Sister Act

1992. Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith,
Harvey Keitel; dir. Emile Ardolino. Hi-fi
surround, cc. (PG) 100 min. $19.99.
Touchstone.

This surprise hit of the summer has
all the formula elements of past Disney
successes — caricatures in place of peo-
ple, zany chases and an uplifting moral
lesson — but, surprisingly, it works. Sister

This Joint Is Jumpin’: Whoopi Goldberg engages
in behavior unbecoming a nun in Sister Act.

Cult Hero:
Lieutenant Ripley
(Sigourney Weaver)
takes on her darkest
challenge in Alien,

Act is a facile charmer, thanks primarily
to Whoopi Goldberg’s engaging perfor-
mance as Sister Mary Clarence, a mut-
der witness on the run who is actually a
Las Vegas singer hiding out in a run-
down San Francisco convent. Although
the idea’s been done to death (most re-
cently in Nuns on the Run), the cast,
script and direction bring a welcome
freshness to the material.

There are heavyweights involved —
Harvey Keitel as a slimy gangster, Mag-
gie Smith as a starchy headmistress —
but the real standout is newcomer Kathy
Najimy as a bubbly nun who considered
becoming an airline stewardess before
being called by God. The most charming
plot twist is to have Whoopi take over as
leader of the nuns’ choir. Her Las Vegas-
style staging of altered Motown tunes
(“My Guy” becomes “My God”) is infec-
tious. The best gag, however, is a throw-
away: When Sister Clarence ducks into
a bar and is followed by two other nuns,
one of the patrons complains to his pal,
“If this becomes a nuns’ bar, I’m outta
here.” —Tom Soter

Patriot Games

1992. Harrison Ford, Anne Archer; dir.
Phillip Noyce. Hi-fi surround, cc. (R) Hi-fi
surround, cc. 117 min. priced for rental. LD
pan-and-scan or letterboxed $34.95. Para-
mount.

When a colleague likens Jack Ryan
to John Wayne, it’s no joke. The hero of
Patriot Games embodies manly decency,
defending his family from evil and up-

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Though the laserdisc format has yet
to find the true mass audience it de-
serves, it now exerts a tremendous
influence on the way cassette releases
are produced. A shining example is
New Line’s 25th-anniversary tape of
The Graduate ($19.95), which fea-
tures the film’s original widescreen
picture and extensive supplementary
material. From beginning to end, this
cassette’s content was directly shaped
by the many “special-edition” discs

The Graduate may also be the
first tape to begin with a table of con-
tents, but this is
made necessary
by the somewhat
awkward way
the extra mate-
tial is presented.
An original 23-
minute docu-
mentary called
The Graduate at
25 precedes the

lengthy one-on-
with Hoffman

ture. This Graduate sandwich would
work much better on disc, where in-
dividual segments can be chapter en-
coded and easily bypassed when
necessary. On cassette, the extra ma-
terial belongs after the movie. And a
music video by mediocre rock band
The Lemonheads, for its new version
of “Mrs. Robinson,” shouldn’t have
been included here at all.

But these drawbacks don’t
amount to much in the face of direc-
tor Mike Nichols’ daring and inspired
film. It’s as funny and moving as it
was 25 years ago, and its satirical bite
has only strengthened with age. And
the Hoffman interview is a rare treat.
It was originally intended to appear
only as part of the larger documen-
tary. The 25-minute one-on-one was
added to the package at the last min-
ute because his insightful anecdotes
were simply too good to pass up. New
Line has more special-edition cas-
settes in the works — The Lion in Win-
ter and Carnal Knowledge, among
others, are likely candidates for 93.
We can only hope the other studios
are paying very close attention.

DECEMBER 1992 VIDEO 57

holding American honor in a crisis. Tak-
ing over the role from The Hunt for Red
October star Alec Baldwin, Harrison
Ford is typically competent in this un-
ambitious thriller, which is sure to leave
inquiring minds hungry for more.

Out for revenge because Jack inter-
rupted their assassination plot on the
streets of London, nasty Irish terrorists
follow him home to Maryland, where
they try to machine-gun his wife (Anne
Archer) and daughter (Thora Birch).
Turning to his mates at the CIA for
help, Jack engages in a deadly game of
cat-and-mause with these savage foes.
Guess who wins.

The film tries to exploit political vio-
lence without discussing politics, por-
traying terrorists too extreme even for
the IRA, including a crafty leader (Pat-
tick Bergin) and deranged follower
(Sean Bean). Just as the superior The Si-
lence of the Lambs exalted the FBI, Patri-
ot Games endorses the CIA by placing
cartoon demons in opposition. Director
Phillip Noyce also relies on a darkness
shootout that compares unfavorably
with that in Jonathan Demme’s film. But
perhaps it’s unfair to compare this pre-
dictable melodrama to a contemporary
flick — it’s closer in spirit to the B-movies
of yesteryear.

My Hero: Patriot Games’ Harrison Ford thwarts an
attempted political assassination in London.

Far and Away

1992. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman; dir.
Ron Howard. Hi-fi surround, cc. (PG-13)
160 min. priced for rental. LD $39.98.
MCA/Universal.

Ron Howard’s sweeping epic was
meant as a tribute to the films of David
Lean but comes off more as an homage
to TV miniseries like Centennial. Filled

Go West, Young Man: Irish immigrant Tom Cruise races for unclaimed land to make his home in Far and Away.

with grand imagery and a thin story, Far Now everyone can see what all the

and Away is as engagingly predictable as
a yarn heard at the Blarney Rock.

Tom Cruise acquits himself admira-
bly as a “Mick” named Michael, a head-
strong Irish lad who can box better, run
faster and get himself into more scrapes
than a fork-tongued presidential candi-
date. The lassie of his eye is real-life wife
Nicole Kidman, and their romance is
typically rocky with hate masking love
and tragedy separating them just as they
find each other. The story follows two
Irish immigrants in their quest for a new
life and new land in 19th-century Amer-
ica. Along the way there’s humor, sad-
ness, excitement and an infinite variety
of credible locales and incredible plot
twists. Breadth does not equal depth,
however. Ten minutes after it’s over, Far
and Away could just as easily be retitled
Out of Sight, Out of Mind. —TS

The Killer

1990. Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee; wr./dir.
John Woo. Hi-fi stereo, dubbed or subtitled.
(NR) 110 min. $89.95. Fox Lorber.

Just when it seemed the action genre
had sunk irretrievably into parody at the
hands of Arnold Schwarzenegger, along
comes director John Woo to shore it
back up. Woo’s deliriously intense mixes
of Sam Peckinpah firepower and Doug-
las Sirk melodrama, huge box-office hits
in his native Hong Kong, have been ea-
gerly sought out at film festivals and by
viewers able to find them at Chinese-
language theaters or on imported video.

shooting — er, shouting’s all about with
the official American release of The
Killer, a movie so cool you could ice
skate on it.

Woo’s regular star Chow Yun-Fat
has the title role, an honorable assassin
(absurdly named “Jeff” in the English-
language version) who wants to get out
of the business. What is supposed to be
Jeffs last job goes awry when the muzzle
flash of his gun accidentally blinds Jen-
nie (Sally Yeh), a young nightclub
singer. Consumed with guilt, Jeff accepts
another hit to raise enough money for,
you guessed it, the operation that will
restore Jennie’s sight.

Complicating his mission is Inspec-
tor Li (Danny Lee), Hong Kong’s answer
to Dirty Harry. Initially determined to
bring Jeff in, Li changes his opinion
when he sees Jeff endanger himself to
save the life of a child. The two become
allies in time for the finale, a battle with
mob of drug runners that makes The
Wild Bunch look like one of the duller
Fischer-Spassky chess meets.

This wild mixture of religious sym-

Trigger Happy: Writer/director John Woo's out-
standing The Killer revitalizes the action genre.

58 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

bolism, male bonding and gonzo gunplay
works only because Woo understands
the prime requirement of this material.
sincerity. No matter how outrageous the
situation, he never lets things get campy.
And, unlike the predictable manipula-
tions of explosions and stuntmen in oth-
er action movies, his spectacular set
pieces are not only tightly paced but
well-scripted. Instead of numbing you
with overkill, The Killer's operatic inten-
sity leaves you feeling giddy, just the way
this kind of movie is supposed to.
—M. Faust

Proof

1991. Hugo Weaving, Russell Crowe; wr./
dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse. Hi-fi surround. (R)
90 min. priced for rental. New Line.

Few people get through life without
| experiencing the odd flash of paranoia,
but Proof’s Martin Webber (Hugo Weav-
ing) has honed his into an art form.
Thirty-something and blind since birth,
Martin’s less-than-rosy image of the
world is summed up in a dreary child-
hood exchange with his dying mother.
Accused of making up details as she de-
scribes the view from Martin’s window,
she asks, incredulously, “Why would I lie
to you?”

“Because you can,” sneers the small
boy.

A quarter-century later, Martin’s
faith in humanity seems unlikely to be
restored by the cynical housekeeper Cel-
ia (Genevieve Picot). So Martin makes
do with his hobby: taking photographs
and labeling them with captions pro-
vided by sighted volunteers. One of
these samaritans is a cheerfully dim bus-
boy named Andy (Russell Crowe). Andy
proves to be just what Martin needs: a
teal pal. So what’s wrong with this pic-
ture? Nothing. Yet. Perhaps the more
appropriate question is, “Where’s Cel-
ia?”

Writer-director Jocelyn Moorhouse
has managed to connect the elements of
paranoia, poignancy and wicked black
humor into a most amazing triangle.
Here’s Proof. —John Walker

Article 99
1992. Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Kathy
Baker; dir. Howard Deutsch. Hi-fi stereo,

cc. (R) 100 min. $92.98. Orion.
The patients at the chaotic veterans’

hospital in Article 99 are like sharks in

Sutherland.

wheelchairs: If they stop moving, they
die. Their dedicated, overworked doc-
tors shunt them from ward to ward for
meaningless tests, just to keep them
from being discharged by the cost-ob-
sessed administration before their life-
saving operations are approved. It’s war
between the docs and the bureaucrats,
with the vets as hostages.
Director Howard Deutsch maintains
a light tone and a sense of perpetual mo-
tion. The breakneck pacing not only en-
hances the physical action but lends
greater urgency to the acting. Ray Liotta
finally gets to give a big, romantic, mov-
ie-star performance; as the leader of the
rebel doctors, he anchors the large, ter-
tific cast. John Mahoney, as the evil hos-
pital director, shows what a good actor
can do with a cartoon villain. Kiefer
Sutherland, Kathy Baker, Lea Thomp-
son, Eli Wallach and numerous others
have to fight for screen time, and they
seem to be having a grand time doing it.
The picture does get a tad hokey
when it’s trying to make a serious point,
and the climax is pure Hollywood. But
there’s scarcely a moment when it isn’t
entertaining. Article 99 may not be
M*A*S*H, but it'll do very nicely.
—Sol Louis Siegel

Cousin Bobby

1992. Dir. Jonathan Demme. Hi-fi mono.
(NR) 70 min. $59.95. Cinevista.

Filmmaker Jonathan Demme hadn't
seen his second cousin, the Reverend
Robert Castle, for more than 30 years
when they met up again in 1989. Having
been commissioned to make a docu-
mentary film showing his “personal vi-
sion of reality,’ Demme decided to use
the renewed relation with Castle for his
subject. The film that resulted, Cousin
Bobby, is a small gem that gives some
real meaning to the much-abused phrase
“family values.”

Demme alternates scenes of himself
and Castle conversing about their family
with a history of his cousin’s life as a so-

Doctor in the House:
Article 99’s Kiefer

cially conscious Episcopalian minister.
Castle’s first ministry, in Jersey City dur-
ing the early ’60s, brought him into con-
tact with racial inequality and with
various groups determined to do some-
thing about it, including the Black Pan-
thers and the SDS. Nearly 30 years later
ae has kept the faith, leading a congre-
gation in Harlem and fighting daily
against a system that seems to him de-
termined to ignore the plight of the im-
poverished.

In deceptively casual home-movie
style, Demme recreates for the viewer
the process by which he came to know
this complex but impassioned man who
chooses to live in a tough urban envi-
ronment because he believes he can
make a difference. In his own way, Dem-
me has made a difference too. —MF

It’s All Relative: The Silence of the Lambs director
Jonathan Demme (left) with his Cousin Bobby.

Pe ela iees:

MGM: When
the Lion Roars

1992 comp. B@W/color. Nar. Patrick
Stewart; dir. Frank Martin. Digital stereo.
(NR) 372 min. CLV 7 sides. $69.98.
MGM/UA.

How the mighty have fallen! MGM:
When the Lion Roars tracks the studio
from 1924, when it aimed to crank out a
film each week, through its ‘“‘golden
years,” up to recent troubles, when bull-
dozers razed back lots which were home

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to sets from the Andy Hardy series and
other nostalgic favorites. And while the
booklet accompanying this laserdisc
boxed set trumpets that Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer has “reclaimed its rightful
place as an industry leader” with Oscar
winners like Thelma & Louise and Moon-
struck, the three-part documentary ends
with the pronouncement, “The empire
is gone...and yet its creations remain
with us.” Sounds like an advertisement
for the MGM film library, which is
owned by Ted Turner, who coinciden-
tally also owns TNT, where When the
Lion Roars aired earlier this year...
Motivations aside, MGM of yes-
teryear is worth heralding. Through film
clips, archival footage and interviews
running the gamut from dancers to di-
rectors, the story of L.B. Mayer and
“Boy Wonder” Irving Thalberg unfolds.
Watching the beginnings of the star sys-

“| tem and the MGM “look” — created

largely by art director Cedric Gibbons,
who won ll Oscars and actually de-
signed the statuette himself — is fascinat-
ing. Also intriguing is what didn’t make
it to the screen: two-color Technicolor
work on 1926's Ben-Hur, and a number
from Judy Garland in Annie Get Your
Gun before Betty Hutton replaced her.
Narration from Patrick Stewart (Star
Trek: The Next Generation), however,
quickly wears thin: He hails each film
and each change at the studio with the
import due World War III. His only de-
fense can be that there is something to
be excited about.
—April P. Bernard

Raiders of the Lost Ark

1981. Harrison Ford, Karen Allen; dir.
‘Steven Spielberg, co-pr. and co-wr. George
Lucas. Digital surround, letterboxed. (PG)

115 min. CLV 2 sides. $24.95. Paramount. |

Behind the Scenes:
Edmund Goulding (on
stool) directs Wallace
Beery and Joan Craw-
ford in Grand Hotel,
which used a galaxy of
MGM's top stars and is
discussed in When the
Lion Roars.

Indiana Jones and
the Temple of Doom

1984. Ford, Kate Capshaw; dir. Spielberg.
Digital surround, letterboxed. (PG) 118
min. CLV 3 sides. $24.95. Paramount.

For years, videophiles have eagerly
awaited letterboxed versions of these
classics. After witnessing Spielberg’s ef-
fective use of the wide screen, I can see
why. Panning-and-scanning amputates
much of the action, and when Indiana
Jones is the subject, to miss the action is
to miss the movie.

Under the microscope of laserdisc,
Raiders of the Lost Ark proves technically
inferior to its successor. The transfer is
good, but the film isn’t too special visu-
ally. The soundtrack is not as detailed or
subtle as on the best recent discs. And
the mix is shrill — downright fatiguing on
a bright-sounding system.

Temple of Doom fares better, with an
orchestral score that makes a good

Over the Edge: It's another close call for Harrison
Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

TET

sound system sing (toward the end, it
roused me into conducting along). The
surround effects will have you jumping
for the remote to repeat the thrill, espe-
cially during the mine chase on side 3.
The picture is stunning —colors look
very saturated but never artificial or
Technicolor-ish, although the effects
look fake.

Of course, technical quality counts
for nada unless the movie itself is good.
And once again, I choose disc number
two. Ford is a bit wooden in Raiders, and
the script often makes him seem more a
mercenary than a hero. In Temple of
Doom, Ford and the writers loosen up,
although the lines given Capshaw’s
character would embarrass an extra in a
junior-high play. I found the end, where
Indy rescues children from slavery, quite
moving—a trait uncommon in the type
of movies you buy to show off your home
theater. —Brent Butterworth

The Alamo

1960. John Wayne, Richard Widmark,
Laurence Harvey, Linda Cristal; dir.
Wayne. Digital stereo, letterboxed. (NR)
202 min. plus supplement. CLV 5 sides.
$49.95. MGM/UA.

The Alamo marked a crossroads for
John Wayne. Before it lay a lot of great
films and performances, and a steadily
tising fortune; afterward, there were
good films (McLintock!, In Harms Way,
True Grit), near-bankruptcy and a
steady decline in his influence. The film
was cut by 30 minutes two weeks after
release, and it wasn’t known to exist in-
tact until 1980, when a complete 70mm
print was found in Canada.

The tragedy for Wayne was that The
Alamo, for all its sheer size, was a well-
directed film. The obvious inspiration
for its structure was John Ford’s Fort
Apache, and while Wayne’s handling of
dramatic scenes isn’t up to Ford’s lev-
el—the playing is broad but stiff—the
action scenes are impressive. The main
problem is James Edward Grant’s ram-
bling script. Grant had done some very
good pictures with Wayne, including
Angel and the Badman, but by the early
1960s his powers as a writer had faded —
an almost lethal flaw on a project of this
size.

The film-to-tape transfer is excel-
lent, and the restored scenes are cut in
almost flawlessly. The battle scenes are
among the best ever staged, and the dig-

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ital stereo sound is filled with thunder to
go with the blood on the screen. Wayne
is understated in his portrayal of Crock-
ett, and Richard Widmark, Laurence
Harvey, Richard Boone and Linda Cris-
tal all give outstanding performances.
As a bonus, MGM has included a long,
loosely structured but heartfelt docu-
mentary about the making of The Al-
amo. It features interviews with the
surviving participants, who, among oth-
er things, go into pleasing detail about
John Ford’s unofficial participation in
: the film. —Bruce Eder

Blackmail

1929. B@W. Anny Ondra, John Longden;
dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Digital mono. (NR)
78 min. plus supplements. CLV 2 sides.
$49.95. Criterion.

At 63 years old, Alfred Hitchcock’s
Blackmail is surprisingly sprightly. Now
spruced up by Criterion, the 1929 thriller
works as a peek at the beginnings of
sound (it was Britain’s first talkie), and
as a preview of the brilliant director’s
coming attractions.

03.

Escape Route: Failing at his Blackmail scheme, a
drifter flees from the police in the British Museum.

After Alice White (Anny Ondra)
has a row with her Scotland Yard boy-
friend (John Longden), she meets an ar-

tist. They end up at his flat—then she
} stabs him when he tries to rape her. Nat-
urally, the boyfriend investigates the
murder. He conceals a glove incriminat-
ing her, only to find that an unsavory
t drifter with blackmail on his mind has
t the other glove.

It took postdubbing and some re-
shooting to turn the silent Blackmail into
a talkie, with Czech actress Anny Ondra

mouthing lines actually spoken by Brit
Joan Barry. But Hitchcock didn’t rely on
the novelty of hearing dialog instead of
reading titles. Instead, he manipulated
sound levels for drama, most effectively
in a scene where the word “knife” is dis-
torted, becoming louder until it screams
in the mind of the guilt-ridden mur-
deress. And guilt is but one of the con-
cepts that would become Hitch’s trade-
marks; a person wrongly accused, a
chase, birds, a negative view of the po-
lice — even the director’s cameo — all
trace roots to Blackmail.

The disc’s extras — commentary from
ninety-something screenwriter Charles
Bennett and Stuart Birnbaum, Ondra’s
sound test, a no-audio, barely discern-
ible snippet of Hitch at work and a
snooze-inducing documentary on the
Vitaphone — won't enlighten Hitchcock

buffs. Anyone who’s read Francois

Truffaut’s Hitchcock will have heard
most of the comments and even seen
photos from the sound test. And Ben-
nett’s reminiscences are few; instead he
blathers offensive comments like,
“Should she have allowed him to rape
her?” and “She was asking for it.” Stick
to Blackmail itself —it’s safer that way.

—APB

Macbeth

1948. B&W. Orson Welles, Dan O’Her-
lihy, Roddy McDowall; dir. Welles. Digital
stereo. (NR) 112 min. CLV 2 sides. $49.98.
Republic.

Billed (a few months too early) as
the 45th-anniversary edition, Welles’
Macbeth has been blessed (many years

Tortured Soul:

Orson Welles’ Macbeth
has two demons on his
shoulder.

too late) with reverential treatment by
Republic. It contains 21 minutes that
were trimmed before its general release
and not restored until 1980.

It’s doubtful that the missing min-
utes would have saved the movie from
the poor reception it originally received,
for Welles presents Shakespeare in the
raw. His vision of Macbeth, one of
Shakespeare’s bloodiest plays, is exceed-
ingly dark in every sense. The landscape
is barren and craggy; the warring Scot-
tish families are brutes. Even the dwell-
ings, to judge from Macbeth’s castle, are
scarcely more than caves. Only the la-
serdisc format could register all the gra-
dations of blackness used to create a
world as grim as Macbeth’s soul. Welles’
vaunted visual flair is evident, but the
unrelieved gloom is a challenge to ab-
sorb in one sitting.

The strange, complicated history of
the production is fully explained in the
accompanying analog-track commen-
tary by Video Magazine contributing edi-
tor Bruce Eder. Eder concentrates on
Welles’ career, going back to his school-
boy days, and eventually touches upon
Republic's history, Hollywood politics
and the other cast members. Since few
of his comments pertain to specific
scenes, his talk can even be enjoyed
with the TV turned off. One drawback:
The soundtrack can be heard too well
under his voice.

‘Two other irritants must also be
noted: The disc has no chapter stops,
and the audio supplement isn’t men-
tioned in the liner notes—only on a
sticker that comes off with the shrink-
wrap. ‘—Andy Wickstrom

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DECEMBER 1992 VIDEO 65

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE MONTH

Achtung Baby—The Videos, the Cameos
and a Whole Lot of Interference

From Zoo TV

1992. The latest from Irish supergroup U2,
with “Mysterious Ways” and three versions
each of “One” and “Even Better Than the
Real Thing.” Hi-fi stereo. 73 min. VHS
only, $19.95. PolyGram.

Charleen/Backyard

1985-86. Dir. Ross McElwee. Double dose:
Quirky Sherman's March filmmaker turns
lens on star of that documentary, and on
residents of a small Southern town. Mono.
(NR) 99 min. VHS only, $59.95. First Run
Features (212-243-0600).

City of Joy

1992. Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om
Puri; dir. Roland Joffe. Treating the desti-
tute of Calcutta restores faith of disillu-
sioned doctor. Hi-fi surround, cc. (PG-13)
135 min. VHS priced for rental. 8mm price
n.a. LD (letterboxed) $39.95. Columbia
TriStar.

Decoration Day

1992. James Garner, Bill Cobbs, Judith Ivey,
Ruby Dee, Larry Fishburne; dir. Robert
Markowitz. Hallmark Hall of Fame winner
of two Golden Globes: Retired judge
dredges up the past of a friend who refuses

to accept his WWII Medal of Honor. Hi-fi

Labels

Cartoon Craze: Looney Tunes pop up on tapes and discs from two labels, Warner and MGM/UA.

stereo, cc. (PG) 99 min. VHS $89.98. LD
$29.98. Republic.

Duck Victory

Ham on Wry

Looney Tunes After Dark

Looney Tunes Assorted Nuts

Looney Tunes Curtain Calls

Winner by a Hare

1992 comps. B&W/color. Six new laserdisc
compilations — with Daffy, Bugs and Por-
ky—comprise 86 classic Looney Tunes
*toons. Digital mono. (NR) 92-112 min.
each. LD $34.98 each. Warner.

Boxed sets get a thumbs-up from those who are all
thumbs with wrapping paper — after all, they're boxes.
Here’s what’s new: from Paramount, the Godfather col-

for
Less

Al Pacino in
The Godfather,
Part lll

lection (three films, $89.95) or trilogy (three films woven
into one by director Francis Ford Coppola, $199.95), and
a trio of classic westerns (including Shane) or classy Au-
drey Hepburn movies, $44.85 each set, plus Warner's
Roots and Roots: The Next Generations, $149.92 each set.
If a card was all you had in mind, CBS has four unique
ones for $9.98 each— Christmas episodes from I Love
Lucy, The Honeymooners, The Beverly Hillbillies and The
Twilight Zone, with a card on the sleeve and gift wrap!
Holiday happenings aside, movies repriced just under

$20 include: Father of the Bride, The Doctor, Billy Bathgate —

and Paradise from Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures;
Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser, The Last Boy Scout
and Doc Hollywood from Warner; The King of Comedy
from Columbia TriStar; and HBO’s The Grifters, Tom
Jones and Straight Out of Brooklyn.

Peter O’Toole’s The Stunt Man, off moratorium, is
now $29.98 from CBS/Fox...PolyGram’s classic rock col-
lection, $14.95 per title, includes Eric Clapton, The Who
and Van Morrison...Musicals from Jeanette McDonald,
Nelson Eddy and Mario Lanza (some, like The Cat and
the Fiddle, new to video) can be had for a song ($19.98)
from MGM/UA...Shampoo, A Soldier’s Story and Educating
Rita top the list of more $24.95 laserdiscs from Pioneer's
“Columbia Classics.” —APB

66 VIDEO DECEMBER 1992

Dr. Who

Some of the 27-year-old cult series’ most-
requested episodes: “The Tomb of the Cy-
berman” (1967, Patrick Troughton),
“Shada” and “The Cave of Androzani”
(both 1984, Peter Davidson). Mono (except
“Shada” in stereo). 101 min. each. VHS,
Beta $19.98 each. CBS/Fox.

Eyes on the Prize

1987. 6 vols. Landmark, multiple-award-
winning series on the civil rights move-
ment. Final eight hours of series to be
released in early 1993. Mono, cc. 360 min.
VHS $19.95 each, $119.95 set. Collector's
edition (all 14 hours plus hardcover book,
CD and chronology) $399.95. LD set
$129.95. PBS.

The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 3
1992 comp. B&W /color. Third volume in
very popular laserdisc series accompanies
release of first volume on 10 videocassettes,
$12.95 each, and two more laserdisc boxed
sets featuring classic animation, The Art of
Tom & Jerry and The Compleat Tex Avery,
$99.98 each. Digital mono. Approx. 570
min. LD $99.98. MGM/UA.

Housesitter

1992. Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Dana
Delaney; dir. Frank Oz. Liar extraordinaire
masquerades as architect's wife—so he can
win his old girlfriend back. Hi-fi surround,
cc. (PG) 102 min. VHS, Beta priced for
rental. LD $34.98. MCA/Universal.

Incident at Oglala

1992. Nar. Robert Redford; dir. Michacl
Apted. Documentary about Native Ameri-
can Leonard Peltier, believed by the
filmmakers to be unjustly convicted in the
1975 shooting of two FBI agents on an In-
dian reservation. Hi-fi surround, cc. (PG)

90 min. VHS $89.98. LD $34.95. LIVE.

Compiled by April P. Bernard

it’s Potty Time

1990. Toilet training two- to six-year-olds,
with the help of catchy tunes like “On Top
of Old Potty” and “Super Dooper Pooper.”
Hi-fi stereo. 25 min. VHS only, $19.99.
Learning Through Entertainment
(800-445-5142)/A* Vision.

L’Atalante

1934. B&W. Jean Daste, Dita Parlo, Michel
Simon; dir. Jean Vigo. The 1990 restoration
of an all-time cinema great, the story of
young marrieds beginning a stormy life to-
gether. Mono, subtitled. (NR) 87 min.
VHS only, $69.95. New Yorker.

Lethal Weapon 3

1992. Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci;
dir. Richard Donner. Riggs and Murtaugh
(and Leo Getz), together again for explo-
sive action. Hi-fi surround, cc. (R) 118 min.
VHS, Sp.-subtitled VHS, Beta $99.99.
8mm, LD (letterboxed) $29.98. Warner.

A Midnight Clear

1992. Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross,
Ethan Hawke; dir. Keith Gordon. Superla-
tive war film: WWII unit near the German
front crosses paths with group of disen-
chanted Nazis. Hi-fi surround, cc. (R) 107
min. VHS priced for rental. LD $34.95.
Columbia TriStar.

Night on Earth

1992. Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands,
Giancarlo Esposito, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Rosie Perez; dir. Jim Jarmusch. The director
of Mystery Train and Stranger Than Paradise
takes you on five out-of-the-ordinary taxi
rides in five international cities. Hi-fi ster-
eo, letterboxed. (R) 128 min. VHS only,
$92.95. New Line.

KIDVID

All | Want for Christmas

1991. Thora Birch, Harley Jane Kozak, Lau-
ren Bacall, Leslie Nielsen; dir. Robert
Lieberman. Saccharine holiday fare. Hi-fi
stereo, cc. (G) 92 min. VHS, Beta priced

for rental. Paramount.

The Flight of Dragons

1982. Voices of John Ritter, James Earl
Jones, Harry Morgan. Stop-motion anima-
tion from Rankin and Bass highlights
fantasy tale. Hi-fi mono. 98 min. VHS only,
$19.95. Xenon (800-829-1913).

La Pastorela, the Shepherd’s Tale

1992. Linda Ronstadt, Paul Rodriquez,
Cheech Marin and the music of Los Lobos
in an updated look at shepherds traveling
to Bethlehem to see the Christ child.
Available in English and Spanish versions.
Hi-fi stereo. (NR) 80 min. VHS only,
$19.98. Ode Sounds & Visuals:

My First Video

1992. 4 vols. Cooking, nature, science and
activities for four- to 10-year-olds. Hi-fi
stereo, cc. 40-50 min. each. VHS only,
$14.98. Sony Kids’.

Baby Boom

1987. Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard; dir.

Charles Shyer. Consummate career woman
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AVSO10 Syncro Edit Cable
CRM020 Remote Control
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RC-570 Still Video Camera.
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finds herself saddled with a baby—and lik-
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$29.98. MGM/UA.

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music and sound effects only. Digital sur-
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The Clark Gable Collection

1935-41. B&W. Boom Town, Honky Tonk,
Mutiny on the Bounty and San Francisco.
Digital mono. (NR) 472 min. $99.98.
MGM/UA.

Coming Home

1978. Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern;
dir. Hal Ashby. Two films depicting the ef-
fects of Vietnam back home vied for
Academy Awards. The Deer Hunter was
Best Picture, but Coming Home snared act-
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prices shown in the magazines for camcor-
ders or VCR’S can effectively cost much
more or when ordering a high rated brand
such as SONY, you ma EIVE a sub-
stituted different brand?

Unfortunately, all of this is very true. Here
are a few of the many items you should be
aware of when selecting a dealer: Are his
products brand new & in factory sealed boxes
with a U.S. Warranty? After placing your
order & thinking you got a really good buy,
do you later receive a phone call trying to
switch you to a different brand, or tellingyou
they are sold out of the units at your purchase
pie or any other comment resulting in your

aving to pay more to receive your desired
unit? (Although an honest dealer may also
call you, he will generally offer ethical &
verifiable reasons why he cannot ship your
item.) Does the dealer try to increase the
price by offering you a so called deluxe pack-
age? Beware! You are probably paying
extra for the items that should come factory
eee with your unit. Does he try to

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features & is made by the same manufac-
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to the same specifications &/or tolerances &
therefore may not earn the same ratings in

video or other consumer magazines.

Why does a dealer advertise deceptive
prices? TO GET YOU TO CALL & then
implement the above & many other unethi-
cal & misleading tactics to increase your
price! He knows all of us are looking for a
good deal & wants us to believe we will really

et the equipment at his advertised price.
¢ truth of the matter is that it would be
very difficult for a dealer to price any major
current equipment in a magazine due to the
long lead time required in submitting the ad.
If you have any questions on these or other
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call VIDEO DIRECT AT:

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said it would have a CD attachment for
SNES early in 1993, backed off and an-
nounced plans to market a new 32-bit
CD accessory player late next year. The
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drive.

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years. TTI has just unveiled TurboDuo,
which integrates an upgraded CD player
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When HDTV comes onto the scene in a
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it will be wider than today’s TV sets,
shaped it is argued to improve the dis-
play of widescreen movies. Yet wide-
screen films made for theater-size
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Movies on film
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projected using this Lost in Space: Charlton Heston in a frame from Ben-Hur, filmed in a 2.6:1 aspect ratio.

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nates the need for anamorphic lenses.
Widescreen movies seen in theaters
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space within a tremendous visual field.
Yet a widescreen movie actually has a
smaller visual field than a made-for-TV
movie or program. Here’s why: If we pro-
ject a scene through a lens onto a sheet
of paper, we see a circular image with a
slightly distorted perimeter. A movie
camera uses a metal plate with a rec-
tangular aperture to frame the image.
We can give this aperture any aspect:

squarish aspect ratio.

When television reared its head, an
aspect ratio of 1.35:1 was chosen so that
movies could be shown without crop-
ping. People stayed home to watch TV,
theaters lost revenue, and Hollywood
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widescreen format, first tried in the ’20s,
rose from the dead as Cinerama in 1952
and CinemaScope in 1953. Other wide-
screen processes soon followed.

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makers settled on an aspect ratio of
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space of 35mm film, while a reversing
lens on theater projectors restored the
widescreen images for proper display.

ratio we choose. A square shape, with a
1:1 aspect ratio, carves out the largest vi-
sual field available in the circle. We can
widen the image by shortening the aper-
ture, which brings the rectangle’s left
and right edges nearer the perimeter of
the circle. But as we increase the aspect
tatio by widening the frame, the overall
visual field decreases because we’re
using less of the available image area.
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by as much as 24.4 percent, but this
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percent —leaving us with a horizontal
line. This happens because the height of
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width increases, an effect which also
shrinks the total area of the image.

This doesn’t matter much in a thea-
ter where widescreen movies are pro-
jected on screens as long as 60 feet. But
ona TV set, the term widescreen is no
longer even appropriate. Even a 10-foot
front-projection screen cannot display
an image wider than its eight-foot width,
no matter how much the aspect ratio is
increased. As a result, while wide thea-
ter screens can overwhelm us by their
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apparent on a TV set, even a large one.

The proposed aspect ratio for
HDTV sets is 16:9 or 1.78:1. While this
would increase the width of a TV pic-
ture’s visual field by 8.5 percent over to-
day's sets, it would sacrifice 17.7 percent
of the visual field’s height, resulting in a
total image area loss
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ing-head shots, or
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bottom of a picture
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Moreover, if a
wider ratio is
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most important home entertainment
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